River Severn (old river navigation)
The maximum dimensions for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway are 89 feet long and 18 feet and 11 inches wide. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.
It has junctions with the Cotswold Canals (Stroudwater Navigation - Abandoned Section) at Framilode Junction and with the River Severn (Maisemore Channel - Southern Section) at Lower Parting.
This waterway is excluded by default from route planning with the following explanation: "dangerous, now bypassed by G & S Canal"
The navigational authority for this waterway is Canal & River TrustRelevant publications — Waterway Maps:
- Waterway Routes 01M - England and Wales Map
- Waterway Routes 43M - River Severn and Gloucester and Sharpness Canal Map (Downloadable)
Relevant publications — Waterway Guides:
| Sharpness Junction Junction of Gloucester and Sharpness Ship Canal with the River Severn |
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| Sharpness Point Junction with old entrance to the Gloucester and Berkley Ship Canal |
5½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Fretherne (Hock Cliff) | 5 miles and 6½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Bullo Pill | 7 miles and 5¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Newnham | 8 miles and 5½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Framilode Junction Junction of the River Severn with the Stroudwater Canal (derelict section) |
12 miles and 7 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Minsterworth | 18 miles and ½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Elmore | 19 miles and 5½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Stonebench Turn | 20 miles and ½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Lower Parting Junction with Maisemore Channel (closed) |
23 miles and ¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Llanthony Lock No 6 (closed) | 23 miles and 5¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Llanthony Lock Footbridge | 23 miles and 5½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Somerton Road Railway Bridge (disused) | 23 miles and 5¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Somerton Road Bridge | 23 miles and 6 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Gloucester Dock Footbridge Navigation beyond this point in not advisable. |
23 miles and 7¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Gloucester / Sharpness - Severn Junction Junction of Gloucester and Sharpness Canal with River Severn |
24 miles | 0 locks |
- Visit the River Severn Locks & Weirs - Discover their history — associated with Llanthony Lock No 6 (closed)
- Find out the best way to visit the River Severn Locks & Weirs, how long it takes to see them, how to get there, and info on their history.
- Farson Digital Watercams - Hi-def webcam on River Severn, at Gloucester — associated with Gloucester / Sharpness - Severn Junction
Wikipedia has a page about River Severn
The River Severn (Welsh: Afon Hafren), at 220 miles (354 km) long, is the longest river in Great Britain. It is also the river with the most voluminous flow of water by far in all of England and Wales, discharging an average of 107 m3/s (3,800 cu ft/s) into the Bristol Channel at Apperley, Gloucestershire. It rises in the Cambrian Mountains in mid Wales, at an altitude of 2,001 feet (610 m), on the Plynlimon massif, which lies close to the Ceredigion/Powys border near Llanidloes. The river then flows through Shropshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire. The county towns of Shrewsbury, Gloucester and the City of Worcester lie on its course.
The Severn's major tributaries are the Vyrnwy, the Tern, the Teme, the Warwickshire Avon, and the Worcestershire Stour.
By convention, the River Severn is usually considered to end, and the Severn Estuary to begin, after the Second Severn Crossing, between Severn Beach in South Gloucestershire and Sudbrook, Monmouthshire. The total area of the Estuary’s drainage basin is 4,409 square miles (11,419 km2). That figure excludes the area of the River Wye and the Bristol Avon, both of which flow into the Severn Estuary. The Estuary discharges into the Bristol Channel, which opens into the Celtic Sea and from there into the Atlantic Ocean.