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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.
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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.
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The bridge over the North Walsham to Dilham canal at Briggate.
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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
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©Evelyn Simak
Dist:0.2km<br/>What remains of it. Recently the new owner of this ruined mill and an area of land on the other side of the road, which used to form the mill dam, moved in a digger and started to clear the surrounding area of its vegetation - consequently threatening what is believed to be the only known habitat in England of the endangered black water vole. Briggate watermill was also known as Worstead Mill. Its most extended version used to be three storeys high and originally consisted of weatherboarding set onto a wooden frame, built into the brick base of the ground floor, which was replaced by corrugated iron cladding. Once the mill had three locums; an eight foot six inches head of water drove a breastshot wheel that was 14 feet in diameter and 6 feet wide. The mill once employed 12 workers, with only one left when it closed in 1969. For more information and historical photos see: http://www.norfolkmills.co.uk/Watermills/briggate.html
©Evelyn Simak

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