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Melton Mowbray Navigation

 
 
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The Melton Mowbray Navigation is a broad canal and is part of the Waterways of Mainland Britain. It runs for 14 miles and 6 furlongs through 12 locks from Melton Mowbray Canal Basin (which is a dead end) to River Wreake Junction (where it joins the Grand Union Canal (Leicester Section - River Soar Navigation)).

The maximum dimensions for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway are 72 feet long and 14 feet wide. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.

The Melton Mowbray Navigation was formed when the River Wreake in Leicestershire, England, was made navigable upstream from its junction with the River Soar and the Leicester Navigation near Syston to Melton Mowbray, opening in 1797.Largely river navigation, there were numerous lock cuts, to accommodate the 12 broad locks built along its length, many of which were built at sites where it was necessary to maintain the water levels for an adjacent mill. With railway competition, and the closure of the Oakham Canal, to which it was connected, decline was rapid, and the canal closed in 1877. Two hundred years after it was opened, the Melton & Oakham Waterways Society was formed, with the aim of returning the navigation to a navigable waterway once more.

This waterway is excluded by default from route planning with the following explanation: "under restoration"

Melton Mowbray Canal Basin
Eye Kettleby Lock 1 mile and 4¾ furlongs 0 locks
Kirby Bellars Lock 3 miles and ¼ furlongs 1 lock
Asfordby Lock 4 miles and 4¾ furlongs 2 locks
Station Lane Bridge 4 miles and 4¾ furlongs 3 locks
Frisby Mill Lock 5 miles and 4 furlongs 3 locks
Washstones Lock 6 miles and 3¼ furlongs 4 locks
Hoby Lock 7 miles and 2¾ furlongs 5 locks
Brooksby Lock 8 miles and 3 furlongs 6 locks
Thrussington Mill Lock 9 miles and 4½ furlongs 7 locks
Rearsby Mill Lock 11 miles 8 locks
Ratcliffe Mill Lock 12 miles and 1 furlong 9 locks
Ratcliffe Meadow Lock 12 miles and 7½ furlongs 10 locks
Lewin Bridge 13 miles and 4½ furlongs 11 locks
Syston Mills Railway Bridge 14 miles and ¾ furlongs 11 locks
Syston Mills Lock 14 miles and 1¼ furlongs 11 locks
River Wreake Footbridge 14 miles and 4¼ furlongs 12 locks
A46 Bridge (River Wreake) 14 miles and 4½ furlongs 12 locks
River Wreake Junction Footbridge 14 miles and 5¾ furlongs 12 locks
River Wreake Junction 14 miles and 6 furlongs 12 locks
 
 
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The Melton Mowbray Navigation was formed when the River Wreake in Leicestershire, England, was made navigable upstream from its junction with the River Soar and the Leicester Navigation near Syston to Melton Mowbray, opening in 1797. Largely river navigation, there were numerous lock cuts, to accommodate the 12 broad locks built along its length, many of which were built at sites where it was necessary to maintain the water levels for an adjacent mill.

With railway competition, and the closure of the Oakham Canal, to which it was connected, decline was rapid, and the canal closed in 1877. Two hundred years after it was opened, the Melton & Oakham Waterways Society was formed, with the aim of returning the navigation to a navigable waterway once more.

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[Melton Mowbray] industrial archaeology includes the Grantham Canal and remains of the Melton Mowbray Navigation. Windmill sites and signs of ironstone working and smelting suggest [Oakham Canal] The Oakham Canal ran from Oakham, Rutland to Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It opened in 1802, but it was never a financial [Oakham] town. Oakham is a civil parish with a town council. Oakham, along with Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, and the rest of Rutland, has been represented at [River Soar] line was sometimes known as the Wreake Navigation, though it is better known as the Melton Mowbray Navigation. This new line was so successful that within [List of canals of the United Kingdom] that are navigable rivers with sections of canal (e.g. Aire and Calder Navigation) as well as "completely" artificial canals (e.g. Rochdale Canal). Bedford [Frisby on the Wreake] and civil parish on the River Wreake about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population [Stamford Canal] it would have been built shorter than all the others. When the Melton Mowbray Navigation was being planned in 1785, there were discussions of a link to [List of road routes in Tasmania] Deloraine to its junction with National Route 1 in Melton Mowbray, and National Route 1 from Melton Mowbray to its junction with the B10 road in Bridgewater [Stamford railway station] peak hour services. Services westbound to Birmingham go via Oakham, Melton Mowbray, Leicester, Narborough, Hinckley, Nuneaton and Coleshill. Services eastbound
 
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