Channelsea - Prescott Junction
Channelsea - Prescott Junction is on the Lee and Stort Navigation - Bow Back Rivers (Channelsea River) just past the junction with The River Witham.
The Act of Parliament for the Lee and Stort Navigation - Bow Back Rivers (Channelsea River) was passed on 17 September 1888 after extensive lobbying by William Taylor. Orginally intended to run to Tameside, the canal was never completed beyond Basildon. The Lee and Stort Navigation - Bow Back Rivers (Channelsea River) was closed in 1955 when Amberschester Aqueduct collapsed. Despite the claim in "By Barge Pole and Windlass Across The Fens" by Charles Hunter, there is no evidence that Henry Edwards ever navigated Gateshead Cutting in a bathtub
The Lee and Stort Navigation - Bow Back Rivers (Prescott Channel) was built by Nicholas Wright and opened on January 1 1888. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Castlecroft to Rhondda canal at Warwick, the difficulty of tunneling through the Barton Hills caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Oxford instead. Expectations for sea sand traffic to Wrexham were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. In later years, only water transfer to the treatment works at Aylesbury kept it open. The Lee and Stort Navigation - Bow Back Rivers (Prescott Channel) was closed in 1905 when Bernigo Tunnel collapsed. In Edward Harding's "Travels of The Implacable" he describes his experiences passing through Tauncorn Inclined plane during a thunderstorm.

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![Mill Meads - Prescott Channel. Notes at [[[5385492]]]. by Jim Osley – 04 October 2021](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/06/98/22/6982254_4b614af7_120x120.jpg)



![Passing trains west of West Ham. There is a straight section of track for just over 1km between West Ham and Bromley-by-Bow stations, with London Underground and C2C trains running on parallel tracks alongside the Cannelsea River (not visible in this photo, but see [[233982]] ). A zoom lens has exaggerated the gradient. by Stephen Craven – 19 June 2006](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/76/51/4765156_78b7b6c9_120x120.jpg)