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The opening of the North Walsham & Dilham Canal - the only official canal in Norfolk - was in 1826. The North Walsham & Dilham Canal basically is the canalised River Ant, which was widened to accommodate Norfolk wherries that transported offal to bone mills and returning with loads of fertiliser. Corn and flour were transported to and from Bacton Wood > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/649149 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/646568 and Swafield. Farm produce, timber and coal were also transported by wherry. The canal ran from Smallburgh to Antingham and contained 6 locks.
©Evelyn Simak
The view is easterly. The opening of the North Walsham & Dilham Canal - the only official canal in Norfolk - was in 1826. The North Walsham & Dilham Canal basically is the canalised River Ant, which was widened to accommodate Norfolk wherries that transported offal to bone mills and returning with loads of fertiliser. Corn and flour were transported to and from Bacton Wood > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/649149 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/646568 and Swafield. Farm produce, timber and coal were also transported by wherry. The canal ran from Smallburgh to Antingham and contained 6 locks.
©Evelyn Simak
The opening of the North Walsham & Dilham Canal - the only official canal in Norfolk - was in 1826. The North Walsham & Dilham Canal basically is the canalised River Ant, which was widened to accommodate Norfolk wherries that transported offal to bone mills and returning with loads of fertiliser. Corn and flour were transported to and from Bacton Wood > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/649149 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/646568 and Swafield. Farm produce, timber and coal were also transported by wherry. The canal ran from Smallburgh to Antingham and contained 6 locks.
©Evelyn Simak
Viewed from a footbridge > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1053433 which has been constructed where a railway bridge once stood, resting on the old brick base. The North Walsham and Dilham Canal runs parallel to the River Ant from above Wayford Bridge > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/798701 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/798747 to Antingham > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/716931 - north of North Walsham > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/617099. The canal was built to carry grain and flour to and from the mills by wherry. The now disused Honing lock > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1050960 is the first lock on the canal; a crump-type weir is utilising the fall of the navigation lock.
©Evelyn Simak
The disused canal from Briggate Bridge.
©David Robertson
Restoration work around the mill pond. The pond once again has water in it and lots of wildlife has started to return. Kingfishers have also been spotted here.
©Alan Bertram
The bridge over the North Walsham to Dilham canal at Briggate.
©David Robertson
Dist:0.1km<br/>On the Weavers Way, a long-distance footpath which links Cromer with Great Yarmouth; the path has a length of 90 kilometres and passes through the Norfolk Broads.
©Evelyn Simak
Dist:0.1km<br/>View west along the disused canal; the bridge seen in the background carries the Weavers Way across it. The opening of the North Walsham & Dilham Canal - the only official canal in Norfolk - was in 1826. The North Walsham & Dilham Canal basically is the canalised River Ant, which was widened to accommodate Norfolk wherries that transported offal to bone mills and returning with loads of fertiliser. Corn and flour were transported to and from Bacton Wood > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/649149 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/646568 and Swafield. Farm produce, timber and coal were also transported by wherry. The canal ran from Smallburgh to Antingham and contained 6 locks.
©Evelyn Simak
Dist:0.1km<br/>This footbridge > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1053433 has been constructed where a railway bridge once stood, resting on the old brick base. It carries the Weavers Way over a drain > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1053438 which runs parallel with the North Walsham & Dilham canal. The Weavers Way is a long-distance footpath which links Cromer with Great Yarmouth; the path has a length of 90 kilometres and passes through the Norfolk Broads. The North Walsham and Dilham Canal runs parallel to the River Ant from above Wayford Bridge > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/798701 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/798747 to Antingham > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/716931 - north of North Walsham > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/617099. The canal was built to carry grain and flour to and from the mills by wherry. The now disused Honing lock > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1050960 is the first lock on the canal; a crump-type weir is utilising the fall of the navigation lock.
©Evelyn Simak
Dist:0.1km<br/>This footbridge has been constructed where a railway bridge once stood > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1053435. It carries the Weavers Way over the North Walsham and Dilham canal > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1053438 The Weavers Way is a long-distance footpath which links Cromer with Great Yarmouth; the path has a length of 90 kilometres and passes through the Norfolk Broads. The North Walsham and Dilham Canal runs parallel to the River Ant from above Wayford Bridge > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/798701 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/798747 to Antingham > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/716931 - north of North Walsham > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/617099. The canal was built to carry grain and flour to and from the mills by wherry. The now disused Honing lock > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1050960 is the first lock on the canal; a crump-type weir is utilising the fall of the navigation lock.
©Evelyn Simak
Dist:0.1km<br/>Viewed from the Weavers Way, a long-distance footpath which links Cromer with Great Yarmouth; the path has a length of 90 kilometres and passes through the Norfolk Broads.
©Evelyn Simak
Dist:0.1km<br/>In the corner of a pasture by Briggate Old Hall Farm. This view was taken from one of the disused railway bridges carrying the Weavers Way. See > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1053429 for a view taken in the other direction. The Weavers Way is a long-distance footpath which links Cromer with Great Yarmouth; the path has a length of 90 kilometres and passes through the Norfolk Broads.
©Evelyn Simak
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©Evelyn Simak
Dist:0.2km<br/>
©Evelyn Simak

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