Ivelchester and Langport Navigation

Ivelchester and Langport Navigation
Pill Bridge, the packhorse bridge that crosses the Yeo at Ilchester
Specifications
Status	never completed
History
Date of act	1795
Geography
Start point	Ilchester
End point	Langport
Connects to	River Parrett

v t e Ivelchester and Langport Navigation
Legend
River Parrett Portlake Rhine Langport lock and sluice North Ditch Great Bow / Little Bow bridges (now A378) Langport Back River River Isle (to Westport Canal) River Parrett Bicknell's Bridge B3165 Long Load Bridge Pill Bridge A303 Ilchester bypass Ilchester wharfs B3151 Ilchester Bridge Ilchester weir River Yeo

The Ivelchester and Langport Navigation was a scheme to make the River Ivel (now called the River Yeo) navigable from Langport to Ilchester, in Somerset, England. Work started in 1795, but the scheme was effectively bankrupt by 1797, and construction of the locks was never completed.