Talk:Charnwood Forest Canal

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I find it diffuclt to picture where exactly this canal ran. OK, I get a feeling about a line through Coalville, Blackbrook, Nanpantan and Loughborough but it should be stated explicitly. Is this it just north of the reservoir: Aerial photo of Charnwood Forest Canal. Other map and aerial photo sources. And if the reservoir burst, how come it is still there?

(Funny I seem to remember making similar comments about Ambergate Junction.) -- RHaworth 12:36, 2005 July 15 (UTC)

The line did not run from Coalville. It started at a place on the Ashby to Loughborough road called Thringstone Bridge - but don't be misled by this, it isn't IN Thringstone. It starts at a farm which is on a bend in the Loughborough Rosad just by the George and Dragon pub/restaurant. It winds its way through Osgathorpe and Grace Dieu, through Shepshed and ended in a garden of a house just near the Priory pub in Nanpanton. From Nanpanton the coal was taken into Loughborough by horse-drawn tramroad. However, the canal was never much used at the best of times and I don't think it was ever used at all after the disaster of Feb 1799.

Wendy Freer April 2006