List of canal tunnels in the United Kingdom

List of Canal Tunnels

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

Tunnel	Canal	Length	Designer	Coordinates	Notes	Image
Ashford Tunnel	Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal	375 yards (343 m)	Thomas Dadford	51°53.195′N 3°16.525′W / 51.886583°N 3.275417°W / 51.886583; -3.275417	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	3,057 yards (2,795 m)			Northamptonshire	Blisworth Tunnel, southern portal
Braunston Tunnel	Grand Union Canal	2,042 yards (1,867 m)	Jessop & Barnes	52°16.976′N 1°10.041′W / 52.282933°N 1.167350°W / 52.282933; -1.167350	Northamptonshire	Narrowboat leaving Braunston Tunnel
Bruce Tunnel	Kennet and Avon Canal	502 yards (459 m)				Bruce Tunnel's Eastern Portal (in 1992)
Butterley Tunnel	Cromford Canal			53°3.3841′N 1°22.3994′W / 53.0564017°N 1.3733233°W / 53.0564017; -1.3733233	Derbyshire	The Butterley Reservoir Adit where it enters the Butterley Tunnel, in 2006
Chirk Tunnel	Llangollen Canal	459 yards (420 m)		52°55′46.91″N 3°3′46.77″W / 52.9296972°N 3.0629917°W / 52.9296972; -3.0629917	Near Chirk	View taken from the Chirk Aqueduct
Drakeholes Tunnel	Chesterfield Canal	154 yards (141 m)
Dudley Tunnel	Birmingham Canal Navigations			52°31′18″N 2°04′42″W / 52.52173°N 2.07840°W / 52.52173; -2.07840	Part of Dudley Canal Line No 1	The southern portal of the Dudley Tunnel
Greywell Tunnel	Basingstoke Canal				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 / 50.94889°N 0.52306°W / 50.94889; -0.52306	Closed since 1888; blocked in 1895 by LBSCR under Mid Sussex Line and Midhurst-Pulborough Line.
Harecastle Tunnels	Trent & Mersey Canal		James Brindley/ Thomas Telford	53°4′27″N 2°14′11″W / 53.07417°N 2.23639°W / 53.07417; -2.23639	Staffordshire	North ends of both Harecastle Tunnels, Telford's tunnel on the left, Brindley's the right
Hollingwood Common Tunnel	Chesterfield Canal
Lapal Tunnel	Birmingham Canal Navigations			52°26′42″N 2°00′06″W / 52.4450°N 2.0017°W / 52.4450; -2.0017	Part of Dudley Canal Line No 2	1955 Ordnance Survey map of the east portal of Lapal Tunnel
Lord Ward's Tunnel	Birmingham Canal Navigations
Newbold Tunnel	Oxford Canal
Norwood Tunnel	Chesterfield Canal	2,893 yards (2,645 m)		53°20′06″N 1°16′11″W / 53.33501°N 1.26971°W / 53.33501; -1.26971	Derbyshire
Netherton Tunnel	Birmingham Canal Navigations			52°30′25″N 2°03′25″W / 52.50697°N 2.05708°W / 52.50697; -2.05708		Netherton Tunnel
Sapperton Canal Tunnel	Thames and Severn Canal	3,817 yards (3,490 m)		53°35′29″N 1°57′36″W / 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
Standedge Tunnels	Huddersfield Narrow Canal	5,686 yards (5,199 m)		53°35′29″N 1°57′36″W / 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)		52°23′25″N 1°56′24″W / 52.3902°N 1.9400°W / 52.3902; -1.9400	West Midlands (county) to Worcestershire	Wast Hills Tunnel, southern portal
Worsley Navigable Levels	Bridgewater Canal			53°30′2.2″N 2°22′52.2″W / 53.500611°N 2.381167°W / 53.500611; -2.381167	Greater Manchester	Starvationer at Ellesmere Port Canal Museum with a demonstration of the process of legging to push the boat through the tunnels

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

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Canal tunnels of London

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 Avon Lancaster² Leeds and Liverpool³ Limehouse Llangollen Lydney Macclesfield 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 River Lee Navigation¹ 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.

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