Bob Wood wrote: > 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. >
Actually, the intention was to build it to Berkeley, but the money ran out. At one time Berkeley was a small port, with boats coming up the Pill into the village. For historical stuff Hugh Conway-Jones's website (gloucesterdocks.me.uk) is the best - it has a huge amount of information, just shows what one can do when one is retired!. My web site (gloucester-sharpness.org.uk) is oriented more at boaters, and is in dire need of updating. There are some good books on the canal (try looking up Hugh Conway-Jones on Amazon). Wassail! -- Martin Phillips [email protected]
