List of canal tunnels in the United Kingdom

List of Canal Tunnels

This is a list of canal tunnels in the United Kingdom.

Tunnel	Canal	Length	Designer	Coordinates	Notes	Image
Ashford Tunnel	Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal	375 yards (343 m)	Thomas Dadford		Powys, Wales Tunnel narrows considerably between northern and southern portals due to repairs to its fabric but is nevertheless navigable by a narrowboat with relative ease.	Ashford Tunnel, northern portal
Blisworth Tunnel	Grand Union Canal	3,057 yards (2,795 m)			Northamptonshire	Blisworth Tunnel, southern portal
Braunston Tunnel	Grand Union Canal	2,042 yards (1,867 m)	Jessop & Barnes		Northamptonshire	Narrowboat leaving Braunston Tunnel
Bruce Tunnel	Kennet and Avon Canal	502 yards (459 m)				Bruce Tunnel's Eastern Portal (in 1992)
Butterley Tunnel	Cromford Canal				Derbyshire	The Butterley Reservoir Adit where it enters the Butterley Tunnel, in 2006
Chirk Tunnel	Llangollen Canal	459 yards (420 m)			Near Chirk, Wales	View taken from the Chirk Aqueduct
Drakeholes Tunnel	Chesterfield Canal	154 yards (141 m)
Dudley Tunnel	Birmingham Canal Navigations				Part of Dudley Canal Line No 1	The southern portal of the Dudley Tunnel
Greywell Tunnel	Basingstoke Canal				Closed to traffic following cave-in. Now home to Europe's largest bat colony.	The eastern portal of Greywell Tunnel on the Basingstoke Canal
Hardham Tunnel	Arun Navigation	375 yards (343 m)			Closed since 1888; blocked in 1895 by LBSCR under Mid Sussex Line and Midhurst-Pulborough Line.
Harecastle Tunnels	Trent & Mersey Canal		James Brindley/ Thomas Telford		Staffordshire	North ends of both Harecastle Tunnels, Telford's tunnel on the left, Brindley's the right
Hollingwood Common Tunnel	Chesterfield Canal
Lapal Tunnel	Birmingham Canal Navigations				Part of Dudley Canal Line No 2	File:Lapal Tunnel East 50pc.jpg 1955 Ordnance Survey map of the east portal of Lapal Tunnel
Lord Ward's Tunnel	Birmingham Canal Navigations
Newbold Tunnel	Oxford Canal
Norwood Tunnel	Chesterfield Canal	2,893 yards (2,645 m)			Derbyshire
Netherton Tunnel	Birmingham Canal Navigations					File:Netherton Tunnel North Portal in use.jpg Netherton Tunnel
Sapperton Canal Tunnel	Thames and Severn Canal				Gloucestershire	The Coates Portal at the south-eastern end of the Sapperton Canal Tunnel.
Scout Tunnel	Huddersfield Narrow Canal
Standedge Tunnels	Huddersfield Narrow Canal	5,686 yards (5,199 m)			West Yorkshire to Greater Manchester	Standedge Tunnel entrance at Marsden
Wast Hills Tunnel	Worcester and Birmingham Canal	2,726 yards (2,493 m)			West Midlands (county) to Worcestershire	Wast Hills Tunnel, southern portal
Worsley Navigable Levels	Bridgewater Canal				Greater Manchester	Starvationer at Ellesmere Port Canal Museum with a demonstration of the process of legging to push the boat through the tunnels

Grand Union Canal

• Blisworth Tunnel, Northamptonshire
• Braunston Tunnel, Northamptonshire
• Crick Tunnel, Northamptonshire
• Husbands Bosworth Tunnel, Leicestershire
• Saddington Tunnel, Leicestershire
• Shrewley Tunnel, Warwickshire

Peak Forest Canal

• Hyde Bank Tunnel
• Woodley Tunnel

Regent's Canal

• Islington Tunnel
• Lisson Grove Tunnel
• Maida Hill Tunnel

Union Canal (Scotland)

• Falkirk Tunnel, Falkirk
• Roughcastle Tunnel, Falkirk. Part of the Falkirk Wheel complex; leads to Locks 1 & 2 and South Basin

See also

• Canals of Ireland
• Canals of Ireland
• Canals of the United Kingdom
• History of the British canal system
• Legging (canals)
• List of canals
• List of canal aqueducts in the United Kingdom
• List of canal basins in Great Britain
• List of canal junctions in the United Kingdom
• List of canal locks in the United Kingdom
• List of tunnels (disambiguation)
• List of tunnels in the United Kingdom

External links

• Canal tunnels of London