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Flight of 5 Locks on the Former Somersetshire Coal Canal

A Grade II Listed Building in Southstoke, Bath and North East Somerset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.3439 / 51°20'37"N

Longitude: -2.3686 / 2°22'7"W

OS Eastings: 374420

OS Northings: 160595

OS Grid: ST744605

Mapcode National: GBR 0QW.MZ6

Mapcode Global: VH96S.WHN4

Plus Code: 9C3V8JVJ+GG

Entry Name: Flight of 5 Locks on the Former Somersetshire Coal Canal

Listing Date: 14 August 1984

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1232613

English Heritage Legacy ID: 407982

ID on this website: 101232613

Location: Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, BA2

County: Bath and North East Somerset

Civil Parish: Southstoke

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

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Description


ST 76 SW SOUTH STOKE

6/222 Flight of 5 Locks on the Former
Somersetshire Coal Canal
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II

Five disused locks. Circa 1805. The surveyor for the Canal Company was
William Smith, 'Father of British Geology'. Engineer for this flight originally
of 19 locks (four are now buried or destroyed and ten are in the adjoining parish
of Combe Hay) was probably William Bennet. The locks are of standard dimensions,
approximately 70 feet long by 7 feet wide. Ashlar retaining walls survive to
about 10-12 feet high (some are in a poor condition); the entrance and exit walls
are battered and splayed. Some remains of sluices and culverts. The fourth
lock from the west retains a milestone on the north-west side; a cast iron plate
(now missing) read 4/MILES. These five locks, as part of the original flight of
19, represent the final, successful attempt to achieve the change in level on the
Paulton branch of the canal. Two former attempts - a caisson lock, and an
inclined plane with 3 lower locks - had failed. (K.R. Clew, The Somersetshire
Coal Canal and Railways, Country Life, 6.IV.1951.).


Listing NGR: ST7442060595

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