Dorset and Somerset Canal

Dorset and Somerset Canal
The north face of Murtry aqueduct
Specifications
Locks	0
Status	Abandoned, not completed
History
Date of act	1796
Date completed	not completed
Geography
Start point	Nettlebridge
End point	Frome junction

v t e Dorset and Somerset Canal plan
Legend
Bristol Channel Bristol Bath Jn with Kennet and Avon Canal Coleford and Mells Nettlebridge basin and Frome Jn Wincanton Stalbridge Sturminster Newton Blandford Wareham branch Poole Harbour

The Dorset and Somerset Canal was a proposed canal in southwestern England. The main line was intended to link Poole, Dorset with the Kennet and Avon Canal near Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire. A branch was to go from the main line at Frome to the southern reaches of the Somerset coalfield at Nettlebridge. Construction of the branch started in 1786, using boat lifts rather than locks to cope with changes of level, but the company ran out of money and the canal was abandoned in 1803, never to be completed.