List of canal tunnels in the United Kingdom

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

Listed by name

Tunnel	Canal	Length	Designer	Coordinates	Notes	Image
Ashford Tunnel	Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal	375 yards (343 m)[1]	Thomas Dadford	51°53.195′N 3°16.525′W	Brecknockshire/Powys 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	3,056 yards (2,794 m)[2]			Northamptonshire	Blisworth Tunnel, southern portal
Branwood Tunnel	Stratford-upon-Avon Canal	352 yards (322 m)[3]				Brandwood Tunnel, eastern portal
Braunston Tunnel	Grand Union Canal	2,042 yards (1,867 m)[2]	Jessop & Barnes	52°16.976′N 1°10.041′W	Northamptonshire	Narrowboat leaving Braunston Tunnel
Bruce Tunnel	Kennet and Avon Canal	502 yards (459 m)[4]				Bruce Tunnel's Eastern Portal (in 1992)
Butterley Tunnel	Cromford Canal	3,063 yards (2,801 m)[5]		53°3.3841′N 1°22.3994′W	Derbyshire	The Butterley Reservoir Adit where it enters the Butterley Tunnel, in 2006
Chirk Tunnel	Llangollen Canal	459 yards (420 m)[6]		52°55′46.91″N 3°3′46.77″W	Near Chirk	View taken from the Chirk Aqueduct
Cookley Tunnel	Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal	65 yards (59 m)[7]				Cookly Tunnel, western portal
Drakeholes Tunnel	Chesterfield Canal	154 yards (141 m)[8]
Dudley Tunnel	Birmingham Canal Navigations	3,172 yards (2,900 m)[9]		52.52173°N 2.07840°W / 52.52173; -2.07840	Part of Dudley Canal Line No 1	The southern portal of the Dudley Tunnel
Dunsley Tunnel	Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal	25 yards (23 m)[10]		52.4568191°N 2.2093904°W / 52.4568191; -2.2093904		Dunsley Tunnel, west portal, near Kinver
Gosty Hill Tunnel	Birmingham Canal Navigations	557 yards (509 m)[11]			Part of Dudley Canal Line No 2	Gosty Hill Tunnel, northern portal
Greywell Tunnel	Basingstoke Canal	1,200 yards (1,100 m)[12]			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)		50°56′56″N 0°31′23″W	Closed since 1888; blocked in 1895 by LBSCR under Mid Sussex Line and Midhurst-Pulborough Line.	Southern Portal, Hardham Tunnel.
Harecastle Tunnel	Trent & Mersey Canal	2,926 yards (2,676 m)[13]	James Brindley/Thomas Telford	53°4′27″N 2°14′11″W	Staffordshire. Comprises parallel "Brindley" and "Telford" tunnels. (The length stated is for the Telford tunnel.)	Northern end of Harecastle Tunnel. Telford's tunnel on the left, Brindley's the right.
Hincaster Tunnel	Lancaster Canal	378 yards (346 m)	Thomas Fletcher	54°15′33″N 2°45′18″W	Opened in 1819. Commercial traffic on the Lancaster Canal ceased north of Lancaster in 1944 and this part of the canal was officially closed following the Transport Act, 1955.
Lapal Tunnel	Birmingham Canal Navigations	3,795 yards (3,470 m)[14]		52.4450°N 2.0017°W / 52.4450; -2.0017	Part of Dudley Canal Line No 2 (disused—closed 1907)	1955 Ordnance Survey map of the east portal of Lapal Tunnel
Lord Ward's Tunnel	Birmingham Canal Navigations	196 yards (179 m)[15]			In the Dudley Tunnel complex
Netherton Tunnel	Birmingham Canal Navigations	3,027 yards (2,768 m)[9]		52.50697°N 2.05708°W / 52.50697; -2.05708		The dual towpaths inside the northan portal of Netherton Tunnel
Newbold Tunnel	Oxford Canal	250 yards (230 m)[16]				Illuminated Newbold Tunnel
Norwood Tunnel	Chesterfield Canal	2,884 yards (2,637 m)[17]		53.33501°N 1.26971°W / 53.33501; -1.26971	Located in Derbyshire. Closed with plans for restoration.	Norwood Tunnel western portal
Sapperton Canal Tunnel	Thames and Severn Canal	3,817 yards (3,490 m)[18]		53.591283°N 1.95996°W / 53.591283; -1.95996	Gloucestershire	The Coates Portal at the south-eastern end of the Sapperton Canal Tunnel.
Scout Tunnel	Huddersfield Narrow Canal	220 yards (200 m)[19]			Unlined, rock tunnel	Scout Tunnel
Standedge Tunnels	Huddersfield Narrow Canal	5,698 yards (5,210 m)[19]		53.591283°N 1.95996°W / 53.591283; -1.95996	West Yorkshire to Greater Manchester	Standedge Tunnel entrance at Marsden
Wast Hills Tunnel	Worcester and Birmingham Canal	2,726 yards (2,493 m)[20]		52.3902°N 1.9400°W / 52.3902; -1.9400	West Midlands (county) to Worcestershire	Wast Hills Tunnel, southern portal

Navigatable adits and mine levels

An adits is a horizontal entrance to a mine:

Tunnel	Canal	Length	Designer	Coordinates	Notes	Image
Hollingwood Common Tunnel	Chesterfield Canal
Worsley Navigable Levels	Bridgewater Canal			53°30′2.2″N 2°22′52.2″W	Greater Manchester	Starvationer at Ellesmere Port Canal Museum with a demonstration of the process of legging to push the boat through the tunnels

Listed by canal

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

Union Canal (Scotland)

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

References

Cumberlidge 2009, p. 366.
Cumberlidge 2009, p. 128.
Mosse 2018, p. 142.
Cumberlidge 2009, p. 161.
Cumberlidge 2009, p. 105.
Cumberlidge 2009, p. 363.
Mosse 2018, p. 113.
Cumberlidge 2009, p. 99.
Cumberlidge 2009, p. 76.
Mosse 2018, p. 117.
Mosse 2018, p. 138.
Cumberlidge 2009, p. 72.
Cumberlidge 2009, p. 319.
The Dudley Canal and Tunnel Trust.
information – CanalPlanAC 2020.
Cumberlidge 2009, p. 246.
Skempton 2002, p. 736.
Cumberlidge 2009, p. 310.
Cumberlidge 2009, p. 152.
Cumberlidge 2009, p. 339.

Bibliography

"Lord Ward's Tunnel". information – CanalPlanAC. 5 January 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
Cumberlidge, Jane (2009). Inland Waterways of Great Britain (8th Ed.). Imray Laurie Norie and Wilson. ISBN 978-1-84623-010-3.
"History of the tunnels". The Dudley Canal and Tunnel Trust. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
Mosse, Jonathan (2018) [1969]. Waterways Guide 2: Severn, Avon & Birmingham. Nicholson. ISBN 978-0-00-825801-6.
Skempton, Sir Alec; et al. (2002). A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: Vol 1: 1500 to 1830. Thomas Telford. ISBN 978-0-7277-2939-2.

External links

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[FOOTNOTECumberlidge2009366-1] Cumberlidge 2009, p. 366.

[FOOTNOTECumberlidge2009128-2] Cumberlidge 2009, p. 128.

[FOOTNOTEMosse2018142-3] Mosse 2018, p. 142.

[FOOTNOTECumberlidge2009161-4] Cumberlidge 2009, p. 161.

[FOOTNOTECumberlidge2009105-5] Cumberlidge 2009, p. 105.

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[FOOTNOTE''The_Dudley_Canal_and_Tunnel_Trust''-14] The Dudley Canal and Tunnel Trust.

[FOOTNOTE''information – CanalPlanAC''2020-15] information – CanalPlanAC 2020.

[FOOTNOTECumberlidge2009246-16] Cumberlidge 2009, p. 246.

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[FOOTNOTECumberlidge2009339-20] Cumberlidge 2009, p. 339.

Navigable canals of the United Kingdom
England	Aire and Calder¹ Ashby-de-la-Zouch² Ashton Basingstoke Canal Beverley Beck Birmingham Canal Navigations³ Bridgewater Bridgwater and Taunton Bude² Calder and Hebble¹ Cambridgeshire Lodes³ Chelmer and Blackwater¹ Chesterfield² Chichester² Coventry Driffield Droitwich Erewash Foss Dyke Gloucester and Sharpness Grand Union³ Grand Western² Grantham² Herefordshire and Gloucestershire² Hollinwood Branch² Huddersfield Broad Huddersfield Narrow Ipswich and Stowmarket¹² Kennet and Avon¹ Lancaster² Leeds and Liverpool³ Lee Navigation¹ Limehouse Llangollen Lydney Macclesfield Maidenhead Waterways Manchester Bolton & Bury² Manchester Ship Canal Market Weighton² Middle Level Navigations³ Montgomery² North Walsham & Dilham¹² Nottingham² Oxford¹ Peak Forest Pocklington² Regent's Canal Ribble Link¹ Ripon Rochdale Royal Military Canal Sankey² Selby Sheffield and South Yorkshire¹³ Shropshire Union³ Sleaford¹² South Forty-Foot Drain Staffordshire and Worcestershire Stort¹ Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Stroudwater² Thames and Medway² Thames and Severn² Trent and Mersey³ Weaver¹ Wey and Arun² Wey and Godalming¹ Wilts & Berks² Witham Navigable Drains³ Worcester and Birmingham
Northern Ireland	Broharris Canal Coalisland Canal Dukart's Canal Lagan Canal Newry Canal Shannon–Erne Waterway Strabane Canal Ulster Canal
Scotland	Caledonian Canal¹ Crinan Canal Forth and Clyde Union Canal
Wales	Llangollen Canal Monmouthshire and Brecon² Montgomery Canal² Neath and Tennant² Swansea Canal²
Features	Aqueducts (list) Basins Locks Rings Tunnels (list) Winding holes
Related topics	British Waterways Canal & River Trust Scottish Canals History of the British canal system Narrowboats National Waterways Museum Navigable aqueduct Waterways Ireland
Notes: ¹ Contains canalised river. ² Partly or mostly navigable, and/or under restoration. ³ A system of canals. Canals which form part of this system are not listed here individually.