--- In [email protected], "jhar1945" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not put forward as a definite answer but Paget Tomlinson tells us > that 'From 1663 Stamford leased the river to Daniel Wigmore who carried > out more improvements including an 8 1/2 mile lateral canalfrom below > Stamford to Market Deeping'. Also note the mill slightly upstream - I > wonder if there might have been run off water diverted for fish farming > purposes in the past? > Just something to chew on! > John
Could have been some sort of military thingy. It certainly was not there before the canal became derelict or much before the second world war. Not a lot left of it now either ! Sewage or watercress farm ? It is certainly not old enough for some currently alive local not to have seen it in action. We need a 1950's or thereabouts O.S. map on which I am sure it will get a mention. Regards Pete
