Fens Waterways Link

Fens Waterways Link

will be accessible by broad boats from the rest of Britain's canal network. Completion is expected in about 2014.

New Cuts

The Environment Agency has obtained a "significant proportion" of the £8m required for phase one. Starting from the north, the first development is the provision of a new tidal lock from the Haven in Boston to the South Forty-foot drain, with building work commencing on 8 February 2008. [ [http://www.bostonstandard.co.uk/news/New-lock-will-be-key.3728106.jp New lock will be key to waterways future.] , "Boston Standard" 30 January 2008] This will lead to a new link to the River Glen, a tributary of the River Welland, at Guthram Gowt, providing a route to Spalding.

Another major innovation will be a new cut between the Welland and the Nene downstream of Peterborough, and improvements to the Middle Level Navigations between the Nene and Great Ouse. [cite web
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The completion of the project would be the long discussed canal between Bedford and Milton Keynes following the course of the Great Ouse and joining the Grand Union Canal, mooted as the "first new canal in over a century". The funding for this appears to be problematic but it has the additional attraction of providing for the first time an inland route for broad boats (up to 3.2m 0r 10'6" wide) between the north and south of England.

Gallery

References

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* [http://www.fenswaterways.com/main.asp?page=info Fens Waterways Link website]


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