River Sow Navigation

River Sow Navigation
The river at Fairway Bridge
Specifications
Locks	1
Status	abandoned
History
Date of act	Privately built
Date of first use	1816
Date closed	1920s
Geography
Start point	Stafford
End point	Baswich
Connects to	Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal

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Legend
River Sow (to source)  A518  Victoria Road bridge Stafford railway station Weir and Town Mill Bridge Street (Green Bridge) Coal wharf and Royal Brine Baths Towpath bridge  A34  Queensway (built 1970s) Riverway bridge Fairway bridge old course of River Penk Deepmoor Drain Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Aqueduct and Baswich Lock Proposed new marina and lock River Penk (was Deepmoor Drain) St Thomas Bridge Aqueduct River Sow (to River Trent)

The River Sow Navigation was a short river navigation in Staffordshire, England, which connected the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal to the centre of Stafford. There was a coal wharf in Stafford, and a single lock to connect it to the canal. It opened in 1816, and closed in the 1920s. There are proposals to restore the navigation as the Stafford Riverway Link.^[1]