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From Rickmansworth, a boat may travel north up the Grand Union, but at Leighton Buzzard there is a lock that is only 3.81 metres (12 ft 6 in) wide. So any boat with a beam of 4.22 metres (13 ft 10 in) able to navigate canals and rivers in and around London will be unable able to proceed further north.
Bastard boats or Statters (12' / 3.65 m beam; wide boats on Manchester, Bolton & Bury) Broad-beam boats (called "wide boats" on the Grand Union canal, 2.2 m to 4.3 m beam) Cabin Cruisers; Fly-boats (long and short; on the Aire and Calder Navigation) Keels (on Aire and Calder Navigation) Long boats (narrow boats used on the River Severn)
The key distinguishing feature of a narrowboat is its width, which must be less than 7 feet (2.13 m) wide to navigate British narrow canals. Some old boats are very close to this limit (often built 7 feet 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches or 2.17 metres or slightly wider), and can have trouble using certain narrow locks whose width has been reduced over time because of subsidence.
The Shannon–Erne Waterway (Irish: Uiscebhealach na Sionainne is na hÉirne) is a canal linking the River Shannon in the Republic of Ireland with the River Erne in Northern Ireland. Managed by Waterways Ireland, the canal is 63 km (39 mi) in length, has sixteen locks and runs from Leitrim village in County Leitrim to Upper Lough Erne in County ...
Traditional working canal boats In Great Britain nearly 4,000 miles (6,400 km) of canals (shown in brown) were built. The canal network of the United Kingdom played a vital role in the Industrial Revolution. The UK was the first country to develop a nationwide canal network which, at its peak, expanded to nearly 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometres ...
Although initial plans were for a canal suitable for Thames barges, it was cut as a narrow canal to take narrowboats 72 feet (22 m) long and 7 feet (2.1 m) wide. From Semington, the canal passed through 24 locks , which raised the level by 189 feet 3 inches (57.7 m) to the summit pound between Wootton Bassett and South Marston.
This category is for boats used on the canals and inland waterways of the United Kingdom. Pages in category "Canal boats of the United Kingdom" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
The Rochdale is a broad canal because its locks are wide enough to allow vessels of 14 feet (4.3 m) width. The canal runs for 32 miles (51 km) across the Pennines from the Bridgewater Canal at Castlefield Basin in Manchester to join the Calder and Hebble Navigation at Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire. As built, the canal had 92 locks.