Limits of navigation

There are two of these on the northern section of the Montgomery Canal. First there's the Weston Arm, where you can't get very far - 200 feet - before a barrier marks the end of navigation. That's a BW loo block on the right of the photo. The disused arm is in water for another couple of hundred feet, but after that it's an overgrown ditch.


Three miles south of Frankton Junction is Rednal Basin, a transhipment point for the railway which crosses the canal here. The basin looks overgrown, but I didn't stop to investigate. The swing bridge across the entrance looks serviceable.


Then, three and a half miles further on, just beyond Maesbury Marsh, is Gronwyn Bridge 82. Here stop planks mark the navigable limit. If you weren't expecting them it would be easy to charge straight into them. I wonder how many boats do? The canal the other side is temptingly in water, but only for another half mile or so (or so I believe: I didn't walk on to investigate. Another time.)





(edited to correct spelling)