Hawkesbury Junction

Hawkesbury Junction

Hawkesbury Junction or Sutton Stop (gbmapping|SP360846) is the northern limit of the Oxford Canal where it meets the Coventry Canal, near Hawkesbury Village, Warwickshire, on the West Midlands county border, England.

The junction, a few yards within the Warwickshire border, is four miles north east of Coventry.

A stop lock on the Oxford Canal isolates the water levels of the two original canal companies, with the Oxford being a few inches higher. A disused engine house, built 1821, stands on the western bank of the Coventry Canal. It originally housed a Newcomen steam engine, brought from 100 years' service at Griff Colliery. Named "Lady Godiva", it is now in Dartmouth Museum, having been decommissioned in 1913. [cite book|author=Perrott, David|coauthors=Mosse, Jonathan|title=Nicholson Waterways Guide 3 - Birmingham & the Heart of England|publisher=Collins|year=2006|isbn=978-0-00-721111-1]

ee also

*List of conservation areas in the West Midlands

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