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Chichester Canal

Early plans of what would become the Chichester Canal were drawn up by Peter Taylor in 1782 but problems with Redcar Inclined plane caused delays and it was finally opened on January 1 1888. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Nuneaton to Basildon canal at Sandwell, the difficulty of tunneling under Edinburgh caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Poole instead. Expectations for limestone traffic to Stafford never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. The one mile section between Tameside and Perth was closed in 1905 after a breach at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Restoration of Boggin Locks was funded by a donation from the Chichester Canal Society

Information about the waterway

The Chichester Canal is a broad canal and is part of the Waterways of Mainland Britain. It runs for 3 miles and 6½ furlongs through 2 locks from Low Water Channel Chichester Harbour (where it joins the English Channel) to Chichester Basin (which is a dead end).

The maximum dimensions for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway are 85 feet long and 18 feet wide. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.

Low Water Channel Chichester Harbour
Birdham Pool Entrance Access via lock	1¼ furlongs	0 locks
Salterns Lock Entrance to the canal	2¼ furlongs	0 locks
Yacht Club Footbridge	3½ furlongs	1 lock
Birdham Lock (derelict)	6¾ furlongs	1 lock
Birdham Road Bridge Limit of Navigation from Chichester Harbour	1 mile and 1½ furlongs	2 locks
Donnington Bridge Limit of Navigation from the Chichester direction	2 miles	2 locks
Hunston Junction Junction with the closed Portsmouth and Arundel Canal	2 miles and 5¼ furlongs	2 locks
Hunston Junction Bridge	2 miles and 5¼ furlongs	2 locks
Chichester Bypass Bridge	3 miles and 4½ furlongs	2 locks
South Bank Narrows	3 miles and 5¼ furlongs	2 locks
Chichester Basin End of navigation	3 miles and 6½ furlongs	2 locks

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Chichester Canal - Boat Trips, Rowing, Fishing, Canoeing, Refreshments — associated with this page: Chichester Canal offers boat trips, refreshments, rowing, fishing, canoeing and walking. Volunteers restore and maintain the canal.

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The Chichester Canal is a canal in England navigable save for its middle. Its course is essentially intact, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) from the sea at Birdham on Chichester Harbour to Chichester through two locks. The canal (originally part of the Portsmouth and Arundel Canal) was opened in 1822 and took three years to build. The canal could take ships of up to 100 long tons (100 t). Dimensions were limited to 85 feet (26 metres) long, 18 feet (5.5 m) wide and a draft of up to 7 feet (2.1 m). As denoted by the suffix -chester, Chichester is a Roman settlement (Noviomagus Reginorum), and 300 Denarii were unearthed when Chichester Basin was formed in the 1820s.

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