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A canal basin is (particularly in the
Williamsport MD - C&O Canal c1906.jpg, A canal basin at Williamsport, MD on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
C&O Canal - Cushwa Visitor Center.jpg, Cushwa basin, a modern look at the canal basin in Williamsport.
Morris_Canal_Boats_near_Port_Delaware_Phillipsburg_NJ_From_HABS.tif, Port Delaware on the Morris Canal, with boats waiting for cargo.
A canal basin is (particularly in the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North ...
) an expanse of waterway
A waterway is any navigable body of water. Broad distinctions are useful to avoid ambiguity, and disambiguation will be of varying importance depending on the nuance of the equivalent word in other languages. A first distinction is necessary b ...
alongside or at the end of a canal, and wider than the canal
Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow un ...
, constructed to allow boats to moor or unload cargo without impeding the progress of other traffic, and to allow room for turning, thus serving as a winding hole
A winding hole () is a widened area of a canal (usually in the United Kingdom), used for turning a canal boat such as a narrowboat
A narrowboat is a particular type of canal boat, built to fit the narrow locks of the United Kingdom. The UK' ...
. For inland waterways, a basin may be thought of as a land-locked harbour.Shorter Oxford Dictionary - Vol 1 - "basin"
A basin was often associated with wharves
A wharf, quay (, also ), staith, or staithe is a structure on the shore of a harbour or on the bank of a river or canal where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers. Such a structure includes one or more berths (mooring location ...
around its perimeter, to support commercial users. In modern times, canal basins are more usually used to moor residential and recreational narrowboats.
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See also
*List of canal basins in the United Kingdom
This List of canal basins in the United Kingdom is a list of articles about any canal basin in the United Kingdom.
Birmingham Canal Navigations
* Caggy's Boatyard, Tipton, on the BCN New Main Line
*Gas Street Basin, Birmingham, at the junc ...
*Turning basin
A turning basin, winding basin or swinging basin is a wider body of water, either located at the end of a ship canal or in a port to allow cargo ships to turn and reverse their direction of travel, or to enable long narrow barges in a canal to tu ...
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