Grantham Canal
The Grantham Canal is a broad canal and is part of the Waterways of Mainland Britain.
It runs for 32 miles and 7½ furlongs through 18 locks from Grantham Canal Junction (where it joins the River Trent (non-tidal section)) to Grantham Basin (which is a dead end).
The maximum dimensions for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway are 75 feet long and 14 feet wide. 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: "under restoration"
The navigational authority for this waterway is Canal & River TrustRelevant publications — Waterway Maps:
- Waterway Routes 01M - England and Wales Map
- Waterway Routes 19M3 - Grantham Canal Map (Free Download)
Relevant publications — Waterway Guides:
| Grantham Canal Junction Junction of the River Trent with the abandoned Grantham Canal |
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| Trent Lock No 1 Footbridge | ¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Trent Lock No 1 | ¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Lady Bay Bridge No 2 | 1½ furlongs | 1 lock | |
| A6011 Road Bridge | 2¾ furlongs | 1 lock | |
| Flood Gate (Grantham Canal) | 4½ furlongs | 1 lock | |
| Bridgford Lift Bridge No 3 | 5¾ furlongs | 1 lock | |
| Footbridge No 3a (Grantham Canal) | 7¼ furlongs | 1 lock | |
| Radcliffe Road Bridge No 4A | 1 mile and 2 furlongs | 1 lock | |
| Radcliffe Road Bridge No 4 | 1 mile and 2 furlongs | 1 lock | |
| Clarks Swing Bridge No 5 | 1 mile and 3¼ furlongs | 1 lock | |
| Bridgford Lock No 2 | 1 mile and 3¼ furlongs | 1 lock | |
| Elnors Swing Bridge No 6 | 1 mile and 4¾ furlongs | 2 locks | |
| Footbridge (Lingmell Close) | 1 mile and 6¼ furlongs | 2 locks | |
| Gamston Lock No 3 | 1 mile and 6¼ furlongs | 2 locks | |
| Footbridge (Ashness Close) | 1 mile and 7¼ furlongs | 3 locks | |
| Gamston Lings Bar Road Bridge No 6A | 2 miles and ¾ furlongs | 3 locks | |
| Tollerton Road Bridge No 7 | 2 miles and 1½ furlongs | 3 locks | |
| Site of Bridge No 8 (Grantham Canal) | 2 miles and 4¼ furlongs | 3 locks | |
| Hallam's Swing Bridge No 9 | 2 miles and 7¾ furlongs | 3 locks | |
| Polser Brook Aqueduct No 3 | 3 miles and 3¼ furlongs | 3 locks | |
| Skinners Lock Bridge No 10 | 3 miles and 7¼ furlongs | 3 locks | |
| Skinners Lock No 4 | 3 miles and 7¼ furlongs | 3 locks | |
| Sanders Lock No 5 | 4 miles and 1¼ furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Cotgrave Bridge No 12 | 4 miles and 2¼ furlongs | 5 locks | |
| Cotgrave Lock Footbridge No 13 | 4 miles and 5 furlongs | 5 locks | |
| Cotgrave Lock No 6 | 4 miles and 5¼ furlongs | 5 locks | |
| Hollygate Lane Lock Footbridge No 14A | 5 miles and ½ furlongs | 6 locks | |
| Hollygate Lane Lock No 7 | 5 miles and ¾ furlongs | 6 locks | |
| Hollygate Lane Bridge No 15 | 5 miles and 4 furlongs | 7 locks | |
| Joss's Lock No 8 | 5 miles and 5 furlongs | 7 locks | |
| Mann's Bridge No 16 | 6 miles and 2½ furlongs | 8 locks | |
| Joshua Manns Swing Bridge No 17 | 6 miles and 4¾ furlongs | 8 locks | |
| Cropwell Lower Lock No 9 | 6 miles and 5½ furlongs | 8 locks | |
| Cropwell Middle Lock No 10 | 6 miles and 6½ furlongs | 9 locks | |
| Fosse Bridge No 18 | 6 miles and 7 furlongs | 10 locks | |
| Fosse Bridge No 18A | 6 miles and 7 furlongs | 10 locks | |
| Bridge No 19 (Grantham Canal) | 6 miles and 7 furlongs | 10 locks | |
| Cropwell Upper Lock No 11 | 6 miles and 7½ furlongs | 10 locks | |
| Hoe Hill Swing Bridge No 20 | 7 miles and 2¾ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Cropwell Town Bridge No 21 | 7 miles and 7¼ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Blue Hills Bridge No 23 | 8 miles and 1¾ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Spencers Bridge No 24 | 8 miles and 7 furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Timber Bridge No 24A | 9 miles and 6¾ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Mackleys Bridge No 25 | 10 miles and 1¾ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Wilds Bridge No 26 | 10 miles and 4¾ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Devil's Elbow Celebrated bend in the canal |
11 miles | 11 locks | |
| Irish Jack's Bridge No 27 | 11 miles and 1¾ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Kinoulton Road Bridge No 28 | 11 miles and 6½ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Kinoulton Bridge No 29 | 12 miles and 1½ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Hickling Road Bridge No 30 | 13 miles and 1¾ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Hickling Basin | 13 miles and 1¾ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Dalby Brook Aqueduct No 2 | 13 miles and 3 furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Collishaw Bridge No 31 | 13 miles and 7 furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Clark's Bridge No 32 | 14 miles and 1 furlong | 11 locks | |
| Collishaw Swing Bridge No 33 | 14 miles and 3½ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Moors Bridge No 34 | 14 miles and 7¾ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| River Smite Aqueduct No 1 | 15 miles and 2 furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Bridge No 35 (Grantham Canal) | 15 miles and 2¾ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Bridge No 36 (Grantham Canal) | 15 miles and 4 furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Long Clawson Bridge No 37 | 15 miles and 6 furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Marriotts Bridge No 38 | 16 miles and 1 furlong | 11 locks | |
| Meadows Lane Bridge No 39 | 16 miles and 5 furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Hose Wooden Bridge No 40 | 17 miles | 11 locks | |
| Harby Colston Bridge No 41 | 17 miles and 5¾ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Harby Swing Bridge No 42 | 17 miles and 6¾ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Langar Bridge No 43 | 18 miles and ½ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Rectory Bridge No 44 | 18 miles and 2½ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Stathern Bridge No 45 | 19 miles | 11 locks | |
| Haulings Bridge No 46 | 19 miles and 3¼ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Bingham Branch Line Railway Bridge No 46A | 19 miles and 4½ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Wells Bridge No 47 | 20 miles and ¾ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Malt Rooms Bridge No 48 | 20 miles and 2 furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Plungar Bridge No 49 | 20 miles and 4 furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Barkestone Old Bridge No 50 | 21 miles and ¾ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Barkestone New Bridge No 51 | 21 miles and 3 furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Bridge No 52 (Grantham Canal) | 22 miles and 1¼ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Redmile Mill Bridge No 53 | 22 miles and 3¼ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Grimmer Aqueduct | 22 miles and 6¼ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Redmile Town Bridge No 54 | 22 miles and 7½ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Redmile Winding Hole | 23 miles and ½ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Bottesford Road Bridge No 55 | 24 miles and 2 furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Easthorpe Road Bridge No 56 | 24 miles and 6¾ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Muston Gorse Bridge No 57 | 25 miles and 5 furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Longore Bridge No 58 | 26 miles and 2¼ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Muston Bridge No 59 | 26 miles and 6 furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Woolsthorpe Lock No 12 | 26 miles and 6½ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| River Devon Aqueduct | 27 miles | 12 locks | |
| Stenwith Bottom Lock Bridge No 59A | 27 miles and ½ furlongs | 12 locks | |
| Woolsthorpe Lock No 13 | 27 miles and ½ furlongs | 12 locks | |
| Woolsthorpe Lock No 14 | 27 miles and 1½ furlongs | 13 locks | |
| Stenwith Road Bridge No 60 | 27 miles and 2½ furlongs | 14 locks | |
| Woolsthorpe Lock No 15 | 27 miles and 3½ furlongs | 14 locks | |
| Woolsthorpe Lock No 16 | 27 miles and 7½ furlongs | 15 locks | |
| The Dirty Duck PH | 28 miles | 16 locks | |
| Woolsthorpe Bridge No 61 | 28 miles and ¼ furlongs | 16 locks | |
| Woolsthorpe Lock No 17 | 28 miles and ¼ furlongs | 16 locks | |
| Woolsthorpe Top Lock No 18 | 28 miles and 1¼ furlongs | 17 locks | |
| Longmoor Bridge No 62 | 28 miles and 4½ furlongs | 18 locks | |
| Bridle Bridge No 63 | 28 miles and 6½ furlongs | 18 locks | |
| Casthorpe Bridge No 64 | 29 miles and 2 furlongs | 18 locks | |
| Denton Wharf Bridge No 65 | 29 miles and 6¾ furlongs | 18 locks | |
| Denton Reservoir Feeder Inlet | 30 miles and ¼ furlongs | 18 locks | |
| Denton Copse Winding Hole | 30 miles and 1 furlong | 18 locks | |
| Harlaxton Bridge No 66 | 30 miles and 7½ furlongs | 18 locks | |
| Vincents Bridge No 67 | 31 miles and 3¼ furlongs | 18 locks | |
| A1 Bridge Grantham | 32 miles | 18 locks | |
| Site of Grantham Swing Bridge Infilled |
32 miles and 1½ furlongs | 18 locks | |
| Site of Trent Road Bridge Infilled |
32 miles and 4½ furlongs | 18 locks | |
| Site of Earlesfield Lane Bridge Infilled |
32 miles and 6½ furlongs | 18 locks | |
| Grantham Basin Infilled |
32 miles and 7½ furlongs | 18 locks |
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Wikipedia has a page about Grantham Canal
The Grantham Canal runs for 33 miles (53 km) from Grantham through 18 locks to West Bridgford, where it joins the River Trent. It was built primarily for the transportation of coal to Grantham. It opened in 1797 and its profitability steadily increased until 1841. It was then sold to a railway company, declined, and was finally closed in 1936. It was used as a water supply for agriculture, and so most of it remained in water after closure, although bridges were lowered. Since the 1970s, the Grantham Canal Society have been working to restore it. Two stretches are now navigable to small vessels. A new route will be required where the canal joins the Trent, as road building has severed the original one.
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