Updates to Nicholson's Guides

Page published 1 July 2002 

The Middle Level (Other Navigations)

Junctions

Junction   Waterway
Salter's Lode   River Great Ouse
Welches Dam   Forty Foot River
Sixteen Foot Corner   Sixteen Foot Drain
Well's Bridge   River Nene (Old Course)
Flood's Ferry   River Nene (Old Course)
Junction   Waterway
Low Corner   Popham's Eau
Three Holes   Popham's Eau
Angle Corner   Whittlesey Dyke
Angle Corner   Twenty Foot River
Reed Fen End   River Nene (Old Course)

Old Bedford River

Salter's Lode

River Great Ouse

Old Bedford Sluice I2kMLmap2k
This is a sluice and not a lock. (See the Denver Sluice inset.).

Welche's Dam

Forty Foot River

Forty Foot River (Vermuyden's Drain)

Welche's Dam

Old Bedford River

Horseway Lock I2kMLmap
It is impossible to turn a boat longer than about 20ft in the length between the lock and Sixteen Foot Drain junction.

Sixteen Foot Corner

Sixteen Foot Drain

Ramsey Hollow Bridge I2kMLmap
In early August 2001 the air draught at Ramsey Hollow Bridge (Shown on the January 1998 map as "Low Bridge HR1.7m") was 99.6cm, so it is possible for headroom to be less than that given. You can turn a 58' boat east of Ramsey Hollow bridge, but not probably not to the west of it.

Well's Bridge

River Nene (Old Course) (North)

River Nene (Old Course) (West) (Not covered - Currently!)

River Nene (Old Course)

Note: There is currently no coverage of the river west of Well's Bridge.

Well's Bridge

Forty Foot River

Floods Ferry

River Nene (Old Course) (Link Route)

Sixteen Foot Drain

Sixteen Foot Corner

Forty Foot River

Three Holes

Popham's Eau

Middle Level Main Drain (Not covered - Currently!)

Popham's Eau

Low Corner

River Nene (Old Course) (Link Route)

Three Holes

Sixteen Foot Drain

Middle Level Main Drain (Not covered - Currently!)

Twenty Foot River

Angle Corner

Whittlesey Dyke (Link Route)

Belvill's Leam (Not covered - Currently!)

Reed Fen End

River Nene (Old Course) (Link Route)