The remains of paddle gear and some stonework from Outwell flood lock
Specifications
Locks
2
Status
Infilled
History
Original owner
Wisbech Canal Company
Date of act
1794
Date closed
1926
Geography
Start point
Wisbech
End point
Outwell
Connects to
River Nene, Middle Level Navigations
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Wisbech Canal
Legend
River Nene
Wisbech flood lock
Wisbech
Walsoken Bridge
Elm Road Railway Bridge
A1101 road over bed
New Common Bridge
Elm Bridge
Collets Bridge
Boyces Bridge
Outwell Basin
Scotts Bridge
Outwell flood lock
Old River Nene
Well Creek
The Wisbech Canal was a broad canal from Wisbech, Isle of Ely in the Fenland area of Cambridgeshire, England. It ran from the River Nene at Wisbech to the Well Creek at Outwell now in Norfolk, which gave access to the River Great Ouse. It was abandoned in 1926 and filled in during the 1970s.
The WisbechCanal was a broad canal from Wisbech, Isle of Ely in the Fenland area of Cambridgeshire, England. It ran from the River Nene at Wisbech to...
Wisbech (/ˈwɪzbiːtʃ/ WIZ-beech) is a market town, inland port and civil parish in the Fenland district in Cambridgeshire, England. In 2011 it had a population...
WisbechCanal, opened in 1797, joined the river at Wisbech, the canal was filled in during the 1960s. Various proposals for improvements near Wisbech...
The Wisbech and Upwell Tramway was a rural standard gauge tramway in East Anglia. It was built by the Great Eastern Railway between Wisbech, Isle of Ely...
recovered from the flood. Also constructed across the parish was the WisbechCanal, now disused, which followed the course of the Well Stream as far as...
buildings were rapidly changing the townscape. The filling in of the WisbechCanal in the 1960s, removal of bridges and sluice and construction of the...
enhanced in 1796 by the opening of the WisbechCanal, which linked the Well Creek at Outwell to the River Nene at Wisbech. It followed the line of the Wellstream...
beat Searle. Tomblin beat Sharman in the final. A match took place on WisbechCanal on 8 February 1841 for a prize of three sovereigns over a two-mile course...
Great Britain This short title was conferred on this Act by the Grand Union Canal Act 1943 (6 & 7 Geo. 6. c. v). See further The Public General Acts and Church...
Goole Grimsby Port of Immingham, Immingham Boston Fosdyke Port of Wisbech, Wisbech Sutton Bridge King's Lynn Wells-next-the-Sea Great Yarmouth Outer Harbour...
The Carlisle Canal opened in 1823, linking Carlisle to the Solway Firth, to facilitate the transport of goods to and from the city. It was a short-lived...
Rauceby (closed). After the bird of that name, once numerous. Chameleon, Wisbech (now closed). Crane, Cambridge. After the bird of that name, once numerous...
and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 461. OCLC 931112387. Wisbech St Mary station on navigable 1946 O. S. map 52°39′21″N...
pubs have closed and a few opened, the WisbechCanal filled in, the ownership and operators of the Port of Wisbech changed, bridges demolished and new ones...
Rural District, Wisbech Rural District, North Witchford Rural District, and the urban districts were Ely, March, Whittlesey and Wisbech (the only municipal...
important inland port further downstream on the River Nene than Wisbech port. Wisbech would have been reached by a southward branch of the Norwich and...
Salford, Stretford and Manchester, at the eastern end of the Manchester Ship Canal in North West England, which formed part of the Port of Manchester from...
Boston, Downham Market, King’s Lynn, Mildenhall, March, Spalding, and Wisbech. The Fens are very low-lying compared with the chalk and limestone uplands...
Joint Railway line between Peterborough and Wisbech. The station was opened by the Peterborough, Wisbech and Sutton Bridge Railway (PW&SBR) on 1 August...
Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 172. OCLC 931112387. The Wisbech and Upwell Railway: History 52°38′42″N 0°11′01″E...
Melton Town Pinchbeck United Sherwood Colliery Skegness Town Sleaford Town Wisbech Town Aylestone Park Bugbrooke St. Michaels Cogenhoe United Coventry United...
musical/comedy and best song. The band Strange Fruit performs at the 1977 Wisbech Rock Festival. Hughie Case tells how, due to the pursuit of "fame, fortune...
changed significantly. In prehistory, it flowed from Huntingdon straight to Wisbech and then into the sea. In several sequences, the lower reaches of the river...
(1662–1738), lawyer Sir John Rigby (1834–1903), judge, politician, and MP for Wisbech Thomas Alfred Jones (1880–1956), awarded the Victoria Cross and Distinguished...
in the Staffordshire Potteries; and for other Purposes. Peterborough, Wisbech and Sutton Railway Act 1865 28 & 29 Vict. c. cccxl 5 July 1865 An Act for...
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