The Aylesbury Canal Society is a

waterway society A waterway society is a society, association, charitable trust, club, trust or "Friends" group involved in the restoration, preservation, use and enjoyment of waterways, e.g. a canal, river, navigation or other waterway, and their associated ...

on the

Grand Union Canal The Grand Union Canal in England is part of the British canal system. It is the principal navigable waterway between London and the Midlands. Starting in London, one arm runs to Leicester and another ends in Birmingham, with the latter ...

, Buckinghamshire,

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

. The society was launched in 1971 to promote the use of the Aylesbury Arm, and to run

mooring A mooring is any permanent structure to which a vessel may be secured. Examples include quays, wharfs, jetties, piers, anchor buoys, and mooring buoys. A ship is secured to a mooring to forestall free movement of the ship on the water. An ''an ...

s leased from

British Waterways British Waterways, often shortened to BW, was a statutory corporation wholly owned by the government of the United Kingdom. It served as the navigation authority for the majority of canals and a number of rivers and docks in England, Scotlan ...

. Aylesbury Basin was sold by British Waterways to Aylesbury Vale District Council in 2007. However, Aylesbury Canal Society hold the lease until 2018.

Aylesbury Arm Canal

Construction of the Aylesbury canal from

Marsworth Marsworth is a village and a civil parish within the unitary authority area of Buckinghamshire, England. It is about north of Tring, Hertfordshire and east of Aylesbury. Early history The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, ''Mæssanw ...

on the Grand Junction (now

Grand Union A grand union is a rail track junction where two double-track railway or tramway lines cross at grade, often in a street intersection or crossroads. A total of sixteen railroad switches (sets of points) allow streetcars (or in rarer instal ...

) Canal into Aylesbury started in 1811. It opened in 1814 and was used for the transport of agricultural produce and coal. Its profitability was undermined by the development of the railways from the 1840s. Finger_post_Marsworth_Junction

It is a narrow beam canal, the maximum length of boats is and the width of the locks is . The canal falls a total of between Marsworth Junction and Aylesbury via 16

locks Lock(s) may refer to: Common meanings *Lock and key, a mechanical device used to secure items of importance *Lock (water navigation), a device for boats to transit between different levels of water, as in a canal Arts and entertainment * ''Lock ...

: * Marsworth No.1 & 2 Locks ( staircase) * Marsworth No.3 Lock * Marsworth No.4 Black Jacks Lock * Lock Nos.5, 6 & 7 * No.8 Jefferies Lock * No.9 Wilstone (Gudgeon Stream) * No.10 Puttenham Top Lock * No.11 Puttenham Bottom Lock * No.12 Buckland Lock * No.13 Red House Lock * No.14 Broughton Lock * No.15 Osier Bed Lock (Aylesbury Lock) * No.16 Hills and Partridges Lock (Aylesbury Lock). There are 19 numbered over-bridges on the canal carrying roads, footpaths and farm

accommodation bridge In the United Kingdom, an accommodation bridge or occupation bridge is one that preserves a pre-existing private road, path or right of access when a major transport route is built across it. Without the bridge, access would be disrupted. Accom ...

s. Two bridges are named: No.2 Dixon's Gap Bridge, and No.3 Wilstone Bridge. There are three pipe bridges: one between Lock No.6 and Bridge No.2, one between Bridges Nos.15 and 16, and one between Lock No.16 and Bridge No.17.

References

External links

Official WebsiteBritish Waterways' leisure website "Waterscape": listing for Aylesbury Canal SocietyAylesbury Vale District Council, acquisition of Aylesbury Canal Society mooringsCouncil received a £4.3 million grant from Department for Communities and Local Government to fund canal basin developmentVisit Buckinghamshire website: listing for Aylesbury Canal Society
Canals in Buckinghamshire Waterways organisations in England Aylesbury {{water-transport-stub

Aylesbury Arm Canal

See also

References

External links