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Wey and Arun Canal

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The Wey and Arun Canal is part of the Waterways of Mainland Britain and is made up of the Wey and Arun Canal (Wey & Arun Junction Canal) and the Wey and Arun Canal (Arun Navigation).

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The Wey and Arun Canal is a partially open, 23-mile-long (37 km) canal in the southeast of England. It runs southwards from the River Wey at Gunsmouth, Shalford, Surrey to the River Arun at Pallingham, in West Sussex. The canal comprises parts of two separate undertakings – the northern part of the Arun Navigation, opened in 1787 between Pallingham and Newbridge Wharf, and the Wey and Arun Junction Canal, opened in 1816, which connected the Arun at Newbridge to the Godalming Navigation near Shalford, south of Guildford. The Arun Navigation was built with 3 locks And 1 Turf sided Flood Lock.The Junction canal was built with 23 locks

Passing through a rural landscape, there was little freight traffic to justify its continued existence – the canal was officially abandoned in 1871. Without maintenance, the canal gradually became derelict over much of its length.

However, since 1970, restoration by The Wey & Arun Canal Trust has led to several miles being restored to the standard navigable by narrowboats and small tour barges. Work is continuing, with the ultimate aim of reopening the entire canal to navigation.

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[Wey and Godalming Navigations] and the Godalming Navigation to the Wey and Arun Canal near Shalford. The Navigations consist of both man-made canal cuts and adapted (dredged and straightened) [River Arun] Medway, River Wey and River Mole. From the series of small streams that form its source in the area of St Leonard's Forest in the Weald, the Arun flows westwards [Arun] in West Sussex, England Wey and Arun Canal, in the south east of England Aruṇa, a god in Hinduism Arun-class lifeboat HMS Arun, two ships of the Royal [Wisborough Green] the River Arun 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the village, was the highest point of the Arun Navigation, and the southern end of the Wey and Arun Canal. Newbridge [London to Portsmouth canal] of a canal to link the Rivers Wey and Arun, separated by only 15 miles (24 km). Part of the justification for this canal through a very rural area, with [List of canals of the United Kingdom] Gravesend and Rochester Canal Preston brook to Croxton Aqueduct is 9’ wide Increased to 13' in 1933 includes Arun Navigation "About the Wey and Arun Canal". Wey [Dunsfold] lies in the Weald and reaches in the north the southern escarpment of the Greensand Ridge. It includes the Wey and Arun Canal, and just under half of [Cranleigh] village. Growth came due to improvements in transport; in 1813 the Wey and Arun Canal was authorised. Three years later it opened, passing a few miles to [Wey] Sussex, England River Wey (Dorset), river of Dorset, south west England Wey and Arun Canal, canal in the south of England Wey and Godalming Navigations

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