York Street Lock (Number 3) (Stourport-on-Severn) | lock (water navigation), Grade II Listed (UK)

United Kingdom / England / Bewdley / Stourport-on-Severn / A451 York Street
 lock (water navigation), Grade II Listed (UK)
The start of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal proper.

This canal forms one of the arms of Brindley's "Grand Cross", his scheme to link together the rivers Trent, Mersey, Thames and Severn by canals that transverse the Midlands.

When it opened in 1772 this route to the Severn was the first of the arms to be completed, the Trent & Mersey following in 1777 and the final route to the Thames not being completed until 1789 when Duke's Cut linked the Oxford Canal to the Thames.
Probably Grade II Listed; see www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-393302-canal-basins...

Photo: www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4730907
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffordshire_and_Worcestershire_Canal
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Coordinates:   52°20'19"N   2°16'40"W
This article was last modified 9 years ago