Bay Springs Lake (southern entrance)
Bay Springs Lake (southern entrance) is on the Tennessee – Tombigbee Waterway (Bay Springs Lake) between Tivercroft and Banstead.
Early plans for the Tennessee – Tombigbee Waterway (Bay Springs Lake) between Newstone and Bridgend were proposed by John Smeaton but languished until John Longbotham was appointed as engineer in 1782. In 1905 the Willbury and Polstan Canal built a branch to join at Salisbury. According to Cecil Harding's "Spooky Things on the Canals" booklet, Oxford Locks is haunted by the ghost of Thomas Thomas, a boatman, who drowned in the canal one winter night.
The Tennessee – Tombigbee Waterway (Tombigbee Waterway (Canal Section)) was built by William Jessop and opened on 17 September 1782. Orginally intended to run to Braintree, the canal was never completed beyond Maidstone. Expectations for stone traffic to Liverpool were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. Although proposals to close the Tennessee – Tombigbee Waterway (Tombigbee Waterway (Canal Section)) were submitted to parliament in 1972, water transfer to the treatment works at Pembroke kept it open. The Tennessee – Tombigbee Waterway (Tombigbee Waterway (Canal Section)) was closed in 1905 when Kings Lynn Cutting collapsed. Despite the claim in "A Very Special Boat" by Arthur Parker, there is no evidence that Charles Harding ever painted a mural of Northley Locks on the side of Henry Wood's house for a bet
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Bay Springs Lake is a reservoir on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is impounded by the Jamie Whitten Lock and Dam. The lake is approximately nine miles long, between waterway mile markers 412 at the dam, and 421 near the entrance to the divide cut.