Leading off to ilminster and chard. The chard canal was a 13 mile 22km tub boat canal in somerset england that ran from the bridgwater and taunton canal at creech st.
A glance at the map inset centre pages will show that this immediately threatened the toll revenue of the bridgwater and taunton on goods from this area the loss was in fact estimated at 1 200 per annum.
Chard canal map. 13 1853 4 p 213 ihere is a useful account of incline working in c. Connected chard with the bridgwater and taunton canal at creech st. Michael over four aqueducts through three tunnels and four inclined planes to chard it was completed in 1842 was never commercially viable and closed in 1868.
Canal bridge x top canals x canal chard canal top historic sites and artefacts x listed structure x top roads road transport x trees x top woodland forest x creech st michael derelict aqueduct by chris allen geograph for square st2725. The route was only 13 miles long but the chard end was 231 ft above the creech st. Opened in 1842 closed in 1868.
The major engineering features are still clearly visible in the landscape. The ship inn built in chard in the 1800s was said to have been built by an. Michael end with several hills in between dealt with by inclined planes and tunnels.
Of civil engineers vol. The chard canal was a 13 5 miles 21 7 km tub boat canal in somerset england that ran from the bridgwater and taunton canal at creech st. Water for the canal was supplied via the purpose built chard reservoir.
It was completed in 1842 was never commercially viable and closed in 1868. References to the inclines are scattered the best being in the minutes of proc. Michael over four aqueducts through three tunnels and four inclined planes to chard.
Michael near taunton somerset. By far the best printed account of the canal is to be found in charles hadfield. Michael over four aqueducts through three tunnels and four inclined planes to chard.
The wharf invoice book referred to is deposited in chard branch library. A relatively late and short lived narrow canal. Immediate action was taken.
Canals of the west midlands p 155. The chard canal was a 13 5 miles 21 7 km tub boat canal in somerset england that ran from the bridgwater and taunton canal at creech st. An old map of the planned canal between seaton in devon and the mouth of the river parrett near bridgwater.
James green was commissioned to make a survey for a canal from chard.
