II.
CANALS AND INLAND RIVER NAVIGATIONS IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND,
AND WALES, DISTINGUISHING THE MILEAGE UNDER, AND THE
MILEAGE NOT UNDER, THE CONTROL OF RAILWAY COMPANIES.

(From the Report of the Select Committee on Canals, 1883, p. 225.)

Not under
Control of
Railway
Companies.
Under
Control of
Railway
Companies.
England: M. F. M. F.
Aire and Calder Canal80 0
Ancholme Drainage and Navigation19 0
Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal (Midland Railway).. 26 4
Ashton-under-Lyne Canal (Manchester,
 Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway).. 17 4

Barnsley Canal (Amalgamated with the




 Aire and Calder Navigation)15 1
Baybridge Canal3 3
Beverley Beck0 6
Birmingham Canals (London and
 North-Western Railway).. 160 0
Bradford Canal3 0
Bridgwater, Duke of39 6
Bridgwater and Taunton Canal
 (Great Western Railway).. 15 2
Bude Canal35 4

Caistor Canal (County of Lincoln)

4

0


Calder and Hebble Navigation
 (Leased to the Aire and Calder Navigation)  22 0
Chesterfield Canal (Manchester,
 Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway).. 46 0
Coventry Canal32 4
Cromford Canal (Midland Railway).. 18 0

Dearne and Dove Canal (Manchester,




 Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway).. 14 0
Derby Canal18 0
Driffield Navigation Canal5 4
Driffield River6 6
Droitwich Canal5 6
Droitwich Junction Canal1 3

Erewash Canal

11

6


Exeter Canal5 0

Foss Navigation, York

..


12

4
Foss Dike Navigation, Lincolnshire
 (Great Northern Railway).. 11 0

Gloucester and Berkeley Canal (now part of




 Sharpness New Docks and Gloucester
 and Birmingham Navigation)164 0
Grand Junction Canal135 0
Grand Surrey Canal4 6
Grand Union Canal26 0
Grand Western Canal.. 12 0
Grantham Canal (Great Northern Railway).. 33 6
Gravesend and Rochester Canal
 (South-Eastern Railway).. 6 6
Gresley Canal, including
 Newcastle-under-Lyne Canals.. 9 0
Grosvenor Canal1 0

Hertford Union Canal

6

0


Horncastle Canal11 0
Huddersfield and Sir John Ramsden’s Canal.. 23 6
Hull and Leven Canal3 0

Ilchester and Langport Canal

7

0



Kennet and Avon Canal




 (Great Western Railway).. 57 0

Lancaster Canal




 (London and North Western Railway).. 60 0
Lea River Navigation and Branch Canals33 4
Leeds and Liverpool Canal143 4
Leicester Navigation16 0
Leicestershire and Northamptonshire
 Union Canal24 0
Leven Canal3 0
Liskeard and Looe Canal6 0
Louth Canal (Great Northern Railway).. 12 0

Macclesfield Canal (Manchester, Sheffield,




 and Lincolnshire Railway).. 26 2
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal
 (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway).. 16 0
Market Weighton Canal
 (North-Eastern Railway).. 9 0

Newcastle-under-Lyne Canal




 (North Staffordshire Railway).. 2 0
North Walsham and Dilham7 4
North Wilts(part of Wilts and Berks Canal)8 4
Nottingham Canal (Great Northern Railway).. 15 0
Nutbrook or Shipley Canal4 4

Oxford Canal

91

2



Peak Forest Canal (Manchester, Sheffield,




 and Lincolnshire Railway).. 15 0
Pocklington Canal (North-Eastern Railway).. 9 2
Portsmouth and Arundel4 0

Regent’s Canal

9

6


Rochdale Canal35 0
Royal Military or Shorncliffe Canal30 0

St. Columb Canal

6

0


St. Helen’s Canal (London and
 North-Western Railway).. 16 6
Sankey Canal.. 12 0
Sheffield Canal (Manchester, Sheffield,
 and Lincolnshire Railway).. 4 0
Shropshire Union Canals
 (London and North-Western Railway).. 204 0
Sleaford Chapel13 4
Soar River or Longboro’ Navigation8 4
Somersetshire Coal Canal11 0
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal50 0
Stamforth and Keadby Canal
 (South Yorkshire Railway).. 13 0
Stourbridge Navigation7 1
Stourbridge Extension Canal
 (Great Western Railway)..3 0
Stratford-on-Avon Canal
 (Great Western Railway).. 25 2
Stover Canal (South Devon Railway).. 1 7
Stroudwater Canal8 0
Surrey Dock Canal4 4

Tavistock Canal

4

0


Thames and Medway Canal.. 9 0
Thames and Severn Canal30 0
Thanet Canal0 3
Tone and Parrett Navigation
 (Great Western Railway).. 27 0
Trent and Mersey Canal
 (North Staffordshire Railway).. 118 0

Ulverston Canal (Furness Railway)

..


1

2

Warwick and Birmingham Canal

22

4


Warwick and Napton14 3
Wey and Arun18 0
Wey River20 0
Wilts and Berks Canal60 2
Wisbech Canal6 0
Worcester and Birmingham (now part of
 Sharpness New Docks and Gloucester29 0
 and Birmingham Navigation Company
Total1,260 21,062 5

Scotland:




Aberdeenshire Canal19 0
Borrowstowness Canal7 0
Caledonian Canal23 0
Crinan Canal9 4
Edinburgh and Glasgow Union
 (North British Railway).. 32 0
Forth and Clyde (Caledonian Railway).. 53 0
Glasgow, Paisley, and Ardrossan
 (Glasgow and South Western Railway).. 11 0
Glenkenn’s Canal25 6
Monkland Canal.. 10 0
Total84 21060

Wales:




Aberdare Canal6 6
Brecon and Abergavenny Canal
 (Great Western Railway).. 33 0
Briton Canal4 2
Glamorganshire Canal25 4
Kidwelly Canal3 4
Monmouthshire Railway and Canals
 (Great Western Railway).. 20 0
Montgomeryshire Canal
 (now part Shropshire Union)
Neath Canal14 0
Pembrey Canal0 4
Penelawd Canal4 0
Swansea (Great Western Railway).. 17 0
Total58 470 0

RIVERS IN ENGLAND.

Not under
Control of
Railway
Companies.
Under
Control of
Railway
Companies.
M. F. M. F.
Axe River9 0
Adur River, Sussex14 0
Arun River, Sussex13 0
Avon River (Lower), Tewkesbury to Evesham 
 (now leased to Sharpness New Docks,
 and Gloucester and Birmingham
 Navigation Company)25 0
Avon River, Bath to Hanham Mills.. 11 0
Blyth River, Suffolk9 0
Bourne Eare River, Lincolnshire3 4
Bure or North River, Norfolk9 0
Colne River, Essex3 4
Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation, Essex14 0
Dee Navigation10 0
Derwent River Navigation
 (North Eastern Railway).. 380
Dun River Navigation
 (Manchester, Sheffield, and
 Lincolnshire Railway).. 39 0
Gippen River, Suffolk
 (Great Eastern Railway).. 16 0
Idle River, County of Nottingham10 0
Itchen Navigation14 0
Ivel River, Hertford and Bedford11 0
Kennet River, Reading to Newbury
 (Great Western Railway).. 18 4
Larke River, Suffolk14 0
Medway River, Lower Navigation7 6
Medway River, Upper Navigation15 0
Leicester and Melton Mowbray Navigation14 6
Mersey and Irwell Navigation57 0
Narr River, Norfolk15 0
Nene River Navigation50 0
Norwich and Lowestoft Navigation
 (Great Eastern Railway).. 30 0
New Bedford Level20 0
Ouse River Navigation (York)60 0
Ouse River Navigation (Sussex)30 0
The Little Ouse or Brandon
 and Waveney River22 4
Rother River, Sussex11 0
Stour River, from Manningtree, Essex,
 to Sudbury, Suffolk20 0
Stowmarket Navigation
 (Great Eastern Railway).. 17 0
Stort River Navigation13 4
Severn River44 0
Sankey Brook Navigation3 3
Tamar Manure Navigation22 0
Thames River146 0
Trent River Navigation72 0
Ure River Navigation.. 7 6
Weaver Navigation24 0
Welland River26 0
Witham Navigation.. 32 0
Wye and Lugg Rivers99 4
Total932 3209 2

CANALS AND NAVIGATIONS ABANDONED
OR CONVERTED INTO RAILWAYS.

M. F.
Alford Canal6 4
Andover Canal, converted into Railway22 4
Avon River, above Evesham18 3
Basingstoke Canal37 2
Coombe Hill Canal3 4
Croydon Canal9 4
Glastonbury Canal, converted into Railway14 2
Grand Western Canal25 0
Grosvenor Canal, part of1 0
Hereford and Gloucester, converted into Railway34 0
Kensington Canal, part of2 0
Leominster Canal, converted into Railway22 0
Monmouthshire Canal, near Newport, part converted0 6
Newport Pagnell1 2
Oakham Canal, part converted into Railway15 0
Portsmouth and Arundel (part abandoned since 1855)8 0
Somersetshire Canal (part of), converted into Railway  7 2
Wey and Arun Junction Canal18 0
Total250 1

SUMMARY.