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The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal is a Canal in the south Midlands of England . It is joined to the Warwickshire Avon at Stratford-upon-Avon . At the other end the canal connects with the Worcester And Birmingham Canal at Kings Norton Junction. Part of the way along the canal's length there is a connection to the Grand Union Canal at Lapworth . The canal consists of three unusual cast iron Aqueduct s. The Edstone ( Bearley ) aqueduct is the longest in England. There is another (pictured) where the canal crosses the main road at Wootton Wawen . Beneath the aqueduct is the trackbed of the Alcester Railway, (absorbed into the Great Western Railway which ran between Bearley and Alcester, where it joined the Midland Railway 's branch line between Redditch and Evesham. There was once a pipe from the side of the canal that enabled locomotives to draw water to fill the loco's tank. By the late 1940s the canal had become completely derelict. The later restoration by voluntary effort was a turning point for the waterways movement in Britain. ]] SEE ALSO |
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