Water flowing over the weir and through the derelict chamber of Moor lock. The stonework is still in remarkably good condition.
Specifications
Locks
6
Status
Derelict but largely extant
History
Original owner
Caistor Canal Navigation Company
Principal engineer
Robert Dickenson
Date of act
1793
Date of first use
1800
Date closed
1855
Geography
Start point
Moortown
End point
River Ancholme
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Caistor Canal
Legend
River Ancholme
River Ancholme towpath bridge
Beck End lock
Ings lock
Willow lock
Brigg Road, South Kelsey
South Kelsey basin
Mill lock
Moor lock
B1205 and Jervis Bridge
infilled section
Moortown lock
Moortown wharf
B1434 Bridge, Moortown
Nettleton Beck
The Caistor Canal was a 4-mile (6.4 km) canal in Lincolnshire, England, constructed between 1793 and 1798. It fell into disuse sometime after 1850 and was legally abandoned in 1936. It ran from the River Ancholme, near South Kelsey toward Caistor through six locks, terminating at Moortown, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) away from its intended terminus at Caistor.[1] Parts of it were dredged in 2010, to aid flood defences in South Kelsey.
^Historic England. "Caistor Canal (349937)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 15 March 2013.
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