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Montgomery Canal Guilsfield Branch

 
 
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The Montgomery Canal Guilsfield Branch is a narrow canal and is part of the Shropshire Union Canal (Montgomery Canal). It runs for 2 miles and 2 furlongs from Guilsfield Terminal Basin (which is a dead end) to Guilsfield Branch Junction (where it joins the Shropshire Union Canal (Montgomery Canal - isolated navigable section)).

The exact dimensions of the largest boat that can travel on the waterway are not known. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.

This waterway is excluded by default from route planning with the following explanation: "no reason given"

The navigational authority for this waterway is Canal & River Trust

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Guilsfield Terminal Basin
End of the Guilsfield arm
Gittins Bridge No 5 3½ furlongs 0 locks
Richards Bridge No 4 5¼ furlongs 0 locks
Varchoel Bridge No 3 1 mile and 1¾ furlongs 0 locks
Deep Cutting Bridge No 2 1 mile and 4 furlongs 0 locks
Burgeddin Bridge No 1 2 miles and 1 furlong 0 locks
Guilsfield Branch Limit
End of section in water
2 miles and 1½ furlongs 0 locks
Guilsfield Branch
Section still in water
2 miles and 1¾ furlongs 0 locks
Guilsfield Branch Junction 2 miles and 2 furlongs 0 locks
 
 
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[Montgomery Canal] level branch to Guilsfield, some 2.25 miles (3.6 km) long. Although conceived as a means to serve agricultural communities, trade on the canal developed [Guilsfield] lies beside Guilsfield Brook about three miles north of Welshpool. It is located on the B4392 road and a disused branch of the Montgomery Canal starts nearby [Shropshire Union Canal] Union Canal, nicknamed the "Shroppie", is a navigable canal in England. The Llangollen and Montgomery canals are the modern names of branches of the [Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company] took over the Eastern and Western branches of the Montgomery Canal, the Shrewsbury Canal and leased the Shropshire Canal. Although plans to convert them [Llanymynech] the Monks". The village is on the banks of the river Vyrnwy, and the Montgomery Canal passes through it. The border runs for the most part along the frontages [Abermule] Cambrian Line railway, connecting Aberystwyth to Shrewsbury, and the Montgomery Canal, close to the river, all pass through Abermule. The village had a population [Architecture of Wales] built at Dyffryn Aled in Llansannan in Denbighshire and Trawscoed at Guilsfield in Montgomeryshire. Dyffryn Alyn was built to designs by Joseph Turner [Penwyllt] near Onllwyn. A branch served the Gwaun Clawdd Colliery on the northern slopes of Mynydd y Drum and was extended to the Swansea Canal. Christie was declared [Grade II* listed buildings in Powys] 1822130290302 (Park Farmhouse, Groes-Lwyd) Farmhouse 15807 Maesmawr Hall, Guilsfield Guilsfield 22 February 1995 SJ1667209660 52°40′42″N 3°14′02″W / 52.678231170546°N
 
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