>A stop lock usually marked the boundary between two different canal
> companies and was there to ensure that one company didn't risk losing
> water
> to another (usually the later one). If there was a difference in level
> it
> would always be in favour of the earlier company. John
>
The inconvenience of many canal junctions (e.g. Hawkesbury, which
retains its S.L. and Bedworth, where the gates have been removed) is due
to their being junctions between the jurisdiction of jealous canal
companies at the time of construction - when the canals were
nationalised trade was declining and there was neither money nor
incentive (since working boatmen had developed the skills to deal with
them) to make them easier. By the time the leisure boom on the canals
started they had become valued heritage.
Sean
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