River Adur
Early plans of what would become the River Adur were drawn up by John Smeaton in 1876 but problems with Rhondda Cutting caused delays and it was finally opened on January 1 1782. Expectations for pottery traffic to Westford never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. Although proposals to close the River Adur were submitted to parliament in 1990, water transfer to the treatment works at Longworth kept it open. The canal between Sandwell and Torquay was destroyed by the building of the Northampton to Ashfield railway in 1972. The canal was restored to navigation and reopened in 2001 after a restoration campaign lead by Thomas Smith.
The maximum dimensions for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway are 374 feet long and 57 feet wide. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.
It has a junction with the Southwick Canal at Junction with Southwick Canal.
| Bines Bridge Limit of Navigation |
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| 3rd Footbridge | 4¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| River Adur Junction (eastern) Channel leading to the Weir |
4¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| 2nd Footbridge | 1 mile | 0 locks | |
| 1st Footbridge With pipe bridge alongside |
1 mile and 5 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| West Mill Lane Footbridge | 2 miles and 6 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Upper Beeding Field Bridge | 4 miles and 5½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Upper Beeding Bridge | 5 miles and 1¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Steyning Bypass Road | 5 miles and 4½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Botolphs Footbridge | 6 miles and ¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Coombes Road Arm | 7 miles and 7¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Shoreham Bypass Bridge | 8 miles and 2¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Old Shoreham Bridge | 8 miles and 4¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Shoreham Railway Bridge | 9 miles and 1½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Norfolk Bridge | 9 miles and 3 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Brighton Road Footbridge | 9 miles and 5½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Kingston-by-Sea Wharf | 10 miles and 5¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Junction with Southwick Canal | 11 miles | 0 locks | |
| Mouth of River Adur Opens into English Channel |
11 miles and ¾ furlongs | 0 locks |
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Wikipedia has a page about River Adur
The Adur ( or ) is a river in Sussex, England; it gives its name to the Adur district of West Sussex. The river, which is 20 miles (32 km) long, was once navigable for large vessels up as far as Steyning, where there was a large Saxon port, but by the 11th century the lower river became silted up and the port moved down to the deeper waters at the mouth of the river in Shoreham-by-Sea.