List of canal tunnels in the United Kingdom

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

Listed by name

Navigable adits and mine levels

An adit is a horizontal entrance to a mine:

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

• Islington Tunnel
• Lisson Grove Tunnel
• Maida Hill Tunnel

Union Canal (Scotland)

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

See also

• United Kingdom portal
• Transport portal

• Canals of Ireland
• Canals of the United Kingdom
• History of the British canal system
• Legging (canals)
• List of canals
• List of canal aqueducts in the United Kingdom
• List of canal basins in Great Britain
• List of canal junctions in the United Kingdom
• List of canal locks in the United Kingdom
• List of tunnels
• List of tunnels in the United Kingdom

References

1. Cumberlidge 2009, p. 366.
2. Cumberlidge 2009, p. 128.
3. Mosse 2018, p. 142.
4. Cumberlidge 2009, p. 161.
5. Cumberlidge 2009, p. 105.
6. Cumberlidge 2009, p. 363.
7. Mosse 2018, p. 113.
8. Cumberlidge 2009, p. 99.
9. Cumberlidge 2009, p. 76.
10. Mosse 2018, p. 117.
11. "Foulridge Tunnel - Graces Guide". www.gracesguide.co.uk. Grace's Guide. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
12. "FOULRIDGE - Village goes online! - Internet Archive". www.burnleyexpress.net. Burnley Express. 30 July 2004. Archived from the original on 29 October 2019.
13. Mosse 2018, p. 138.
14. Cumberlidge 2009, p. 72.
15. Cumberlidge 2009, p. 319.
16. The Dudley Canal and Tunnel Trust.
17. information – CanalPlanAC 2020.
18. Cumberlidge 2009, p. 246.
19. Skempton 2002, p. 736.
20. Cumberlidge 2009, p. 310.
21. Cumberlidge 2009, p. 152.
22. 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

• Canal tunnels of London