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Locks River Severn Stroudwater Navigation Thames & Severn Canal (West) 13 1 Foundry 1 Wallbridge Lower Upper Gloucester & Sharpness 2 Dudbridge 2 Wallbridge Upper Framilode Canal to Gloucester 12 3-4 Ryeford Double 3 Bowbridge 5 Newtown 4 Grin’s Mill Saul 6 Blunder 5 Ham Mill The Cotswold Canals 7 Pike 6 Hope Mill to Sharpness a restoration and walking map 8 Dock 7 Gough’s Orchard Whitminster 9 Westeld 8 Bourne 11 A38 M5 9a New M5 Lock 9 Beales Frampton- 10 Bristol Road (re-sited) 10 St Mary’s 11 Whitminster 11 Ile’s Mill on-Severn B4071 12 Junction 12 Ballinger’s 10 13 Framilode 13 Chalford Chapel Map Key A419 14 Bell Canal 15 Red Lion navigable New route proposed 16 Valley 9a Stroudwater Thames & 17-18 Baker’s Mill in water under M5 sharing Navigation Severn Canal dry or reeded River Frome bridge 9-8 19-20 Puck Mill 21-22 Whitehall inlled plus new lock 7-6 Stroud towpath / footpath 5 23 Bathurst Meadow Eastington 24-26 Siccaridge Wood Locks Stonehouse Ebley 1 Wallbridge 2 Cotswold Canals Trust Visitor Centres are at 27 Daneway Basin fully restored Bond’s 28 Daneway Upper structure restored Capel’s Mill Saul, Wallbridge Lock (Stroud) Mill & Bond’s Mill (Stonehouse) restoration in progress The Ocean 2-1 unrestored Upper 4-3 Mills Bath A46 3 Bowbridge missing / new lock required Ryeford A419 Bridges Grins Mill 4 A419 Sapperton Canal Tunnel xed bridge - restored or intact Thrupp Chalford Daneway Portal lift-bridge Towpath closures likely during Ham Mill 5 19-21 restored swing-bridge Brimscombe restoration works. Details at 10-13 14-16 22-28 Sapperton restoration in progress www.cotswoldcanals.com Hope Mill 6 8 9 site of swing-bridge 17-18 obstruction Goughs Orchard 7 Frampton 0 1 2 3 N A419 Mansell A419 Round House miles Brimscombe Port Cirencester Sapperton to A419 Stroud Cirencester Branch A417 Canal Restoration Sections No plans to restore Gloucester Tunnel A419 Cirencester Phase 1B: Saul to The Ocean and Stroud A433 Cirencester Coates Coates Phase 1A: The Ocean to Brimscombe Port Portal Phase 3: Brimscombe Port to Gateway Bridge Phase 2: Gateway Bridge to Inglesham Burford Fairford A417 A361 A433 A419 Smerrill Cirencester Lechlade Aqueduct Siddington Trewsbury (site of) Bridge 29-32 River Thames Thames to Oxford 33-35 Head Thames & River Churn Boxwell Severn Canal A429 Aqueduct 44 (site of) Springs Marston Kemble Inglesham A433 Tetbury Ewen South Wildmoorway Meysey Locks Cerney 36 42-43 Thames & Severn Canal (East) 37-38 Kempsford Dudgrove 29-32 Siddington Gateway Bridge 33-35 South Cerney Virtually no Public access to canal between Trewsbury Bridge, Coates and Siddington Oatlands 36 Boxwell Springs 39 Bridge Planned 37-38 Wildmoorway Latton 39 Cerney Wick B4696 Cerney new route 40 Latton Spine Wick and lock 41 No Public access to canal between Ampney Brook, Eisey and Inglesham 41 Eisey Road Eisey 42-43 Dudgrove Double North Wilts 40 44 Inglesham Canal to Ampney Brook Original Swindon Aqueduct (site of) © Richard Fairhurst (www.systemeD.net/carto) Cotswold Canals Trust (www.cotswoldcanals.com) course Revision 4-1-1 - Sept 2017. Updated by Nick Bird for the Cotswold Canals Trust Bell House, Wallbridge Lock, Stoud. GL5 3JS A419 Cricklade, Swindon Cotswold Canals in Pictures (www.cotswoldcanals.net).

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