2009/5/13 Steve Heaven <[email protected]>: > On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 09:45 +0100, eaml2 wrote: > >> Does anyone know anything about the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal - are >> there any web resources?
> That is a former name for the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal. And was so called because it followed the line of the Vale of Gloucester and then into the Vale of Berkeley. In the days when it was called the Gloucester and Berkeley, it would have entered the Severn about ¾ miles upstream from its present junction and Sharpness Docks would not have then been built. -- Bob
