Fens Waterways Link

Boston to Peterborough Wetland Corridor
The new Fens Waterways Link route to Spalding is from the River Glen (foreground) right into the River Welland (middle distance)
Specifications
StatusPartially constructed
Navigation authorityEnvironment Agency
History
Former namesFens Waterways Link
Geography
Start pointBoston
End pointPeterborough
Connects toRiver Witham, River Glen, River Welland, River Nene
Boston to Peterborough
Wetland Corridor
River Witham
Grand Sluice
Boston
South Forty-Foot Drain
Boston Barrage
The Haven
A52 Donington High Bridge
Start of Phase 3
Fens Link (Route 11)
New lock (Route 11)
Black Hole Drove PS
 A151  Bourne Road bridge
New lock (Route 11)
Fens Link (Route 1 and 11)
River Glen
new route via Vernatt's Drain
Surfleet Seas End sluice
River Welland
Possible new sluice on R Welland
Fulney Lock
River Welland
Crowland
Folly Drain and Car Dyke route
Cat's Water Drain route
Welland to Nene Link
River Nene
Peterborough
Stanground and Ashline Locks
River Nene old course
Middle Level Navigations
Salters Lode Lock
River Great Ouse
Old Bedford River sluice
New Bedford River
Denver Sluice
New route through Chatteris
Welches Dam (rebuild lock)
New lock and aqueduct
Earith Sluice and new bypass
Hermitage Sluice
River Great Ouse

The Fens Waterways Link is a project to improve recreational boating opportunities in the counties of Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, England.[1] By a combination of improvements to existing waterways and the construction of new links a circular route between Lincoln, Peterborough, Ely and Boston is planned. The project is being organised by the Environment Agency and financed from the Regional Development Agency and the European Union.

A separate, complementary waterway is the Bedford and Milton Keynes Waterway, opening up a route for broader beam boats between The Fens and the rest of Britain's canal network.

  1. ^ Staff (20 July 2005). "Project is 'answer to the Broads'". BBC News. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2008.