Locks: Grantham Canal

The Grantham canal connected Grantham to the River Trent in Nottingham. There are no other connecting waterways but there had been a propoal in 1833 to build a 16 mile canal to Sleaford to Grantham.

The Grantham canal ran 32 miles from Nottingham to Grantham through 18 locks. The locks were all broadbeam locks. Large stretches of the canal are still in water and a handful of locks still work.

If the propoal, in 1833, to build a 16 mile canal to Sleaford to Grantham had been accepted then the canal may have remained open as it would have given the Midlands a direct link to the sea at Boston without the need for transhipments at Shardlow on the Trent & Mersey and Torksey on the River Trent.

Lock 1 - Trent lock (disused)
This lock was at the western end of the canal where it joined the River Trent. It is practically opposite the start of the Nottingham canal.