Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
The pumping station at the present foot of the main section of the canal
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These days the canal is almost entirely rural and, being a dead end, is not heavily used by
canal traffic although its lack of locks and its rural feel entice enough boats up to keep the
water stirred up.
Although the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal is, for the most part, on one level, the lock-free op-
portunities continue from Coventry or from Atherstone. The canal leaves the Coventry Canal
at Marston Junction on the edge of the old mining town of Bedworth. A stop lock was built
here to control traffic. The siting of the junction is the result of a late change of plan, the ori-
ginal intention being to join at a Griff Colliery arm to the north.
Looking along the line from the Coventry Canal at Marston Junction
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The first two bridges are Grade II structures made of Attleborough sandstone. At Marston
Jabbett the canal is also crossed by the Trent Valley Railway line. Three different groups of
powerlines pass over the initial reaches of the canal, diverging from Hawkesbury.
