Grantham Canal - Bridges

One of the major problems of restoring the Grantham Canal, is to re-instate the numerous road bridges to navigable height. To conform to road safety laws, line of site at bridges is needed to prevent accidents. An example being Casthorpe bridge, which used to have a sharp humped back to the bridge. This has now had to replaced by long approach embankments to give a more acceptable rise to cross the canal.

The table below describes the current status of all the bridges on the Grantham Canal.

Please click on a bridge name to view a bridge on the canal

Tabular Guide to the Bridges on the Grantham Canal

No.

Bridge Name

Current Status

 

 

 

1

Trent Hauling

No Obstruction

1a

Orston Road

Culvert

2

Lady Bay

Culvert

3

Bridgford Lift

Culvert

3a

Footbridge

Culvert

4 & 4a

Gamston

East bound carriageway via concrete culvert.

West bound bridge ok but obstructed by pipe.

5

Clark's Swing

Low concrete bridge

6

Elnor's or Minor's

Low concrete bridge

6a

A52 By-Pass

Culvert

7

Tollerton

Culvert

8

Lowe's

No Obstruction

9

Hallam's Swing

Low concrete bridge

10

Thurlbeck Aqueduct

Sound

11

Swing

No Obstruction

12

Cotgrave

Culvert

13

Swing

No Obstruction

14

Timm's or Browns

No Obstruction

14a

Colliery Bridge

Culvert

15

Hollygate Lane

Culvert

16

Joshua Mann's Bridge

Culvert

17

Mann's Swing

Low concrete bridge

18

Fosse

No Obstruction

19

Fosse Swing

No Obstruction

20

Hoe Hill

Low concrete bridge

21

Cropwell Town

Culvert

22

Cropwell Roving

Culvert

23

Colston

Culvert

24

Spencer's Bridge

Culvert

25

Mackley's

Culvert

26

Wild's

Culvert

27

Irish Jack's

Culvert

28

Kinoulton

Culvert

29

Kinoulton Swing

Low concrete bridge

30

Hickling

Culvert

31

Collishaw Swing

No Obstruction

32

Clarke's Bridge

No Obstruction

33

Collishaw Second Swing

No Obstruction

34

Moors Swing Bridge

No Obstruction

35

Smite Aqueduct

Good

36

Wooden Swing

Low concrete bridge

37

Long Clawson

Low level bridge

38

Marriot's

Low concrete bridge

39

Hose

Culvert

40

Hose Wooden

Culvert

41

Harby Colston

Culvert

42

Cook's Wooden

Low concrete bridge

43

Langar

Low level bridge

44

Wooden Swing

Low concrete bridge

45

Stathern Lodge

No Obstruction

46

Hauling Side

Low concrete bridge

46a

Railway

No Obstruction

47

Wells Barn

Low concrete bridge

47a

Railway

No Obstruction

48

Malt Rooms

Low concrete bridge

49

Plungar

Culvert

50

Barkestone

No Obstruction

51

Jericho

No Obstruction

52

Redmile Wooden/Steel Rolling

No Obstruction

53

Redmile Mill

Culvert

54

Redmile

Navigable height, but obstructed by pipe and weir

55

Bottesford

No Obstruction

56

Middlestile

Culvert

57

Muston Gorse

Culvert

58

Longore

No Obstruction

59

Muston

No Obstruction

60

Stenwith

No Obstruction

61

Woolsthorpe

No Obstruction

61a

Railway

No Obstruction

62

Longmoor

No Obstruction

63

Casthorpe Bridle

No Obstruction

64

Casthorpe

No Obstruction

65

Denton

No Obstruction

66

Harlaxton

No Obstruction

67

Vincent's

No Obstruction

68

A1 Grantham By-Pass

Culvert

68a

Trent Road

Culvert

69

Earle's Field

Bricked up culvert

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