Stort Navigation

Stort Navigation
The navigation approaching Roydon lock
Map
Specifications
Length13.75 miles (22.13 km)
Maximum boat length86 ft 0 in (26.21 m)
Maximum boat beam13 ft 3 in (4.04 m)
Locks15
Statusnavigable
Navigation authorityCanal and River Trust
History
Principal engineerThomas Yeoman
Date of act30 March 1766
Date completed1769
Geography
Connects toLee Navigation
Stort Navigation Route Map
Bishop's Stortford
 A1250  Hockerill Bridge
End of Navigation
West Anglia Main Line
52
 A1059  Station Road Bridge
51
Station Footbridge
50
 B1383  London Road
49B
Railway Bridge
South Mill Lock No.1
Twyford Lock No.2
48
Pig Lane Bridge
47
Matchstick Footbridge
44
Hallingbury Footbridge
Spellbrook Lock No.3
43
Spellbrook Lane Bridge
Little Hallingbury Mill Junction
Hallingbury Mill Marina
Tednambury Lock No.4
Little Hallingbury Mill
37
Kecksy's Railway Bridge
Kecksy's Farm Footbridge
Kecksy's Farm
Sawbridgeworth Lock No.5
35
Station Road Bridge
Sawbridgeworth Arm
Sheering Mill Lock No.6
33
Sheering Mill Bridge
28
Footbridge
Feakes Lock No.7
Pincey Brook
 A1184  Cambridge Rd Bridge
Harlow Mill
Harlow Mill Lock No.8
21
Harlow Footbridge
Latton Lock No.9
18
Bailey Bridge
Moorhen Marina, Harlow
Harlow Town
Burnt Mill Lock No.10
Burnt Mill Bridge
16
 A414  Fifth Ave bridge
15
Footbridge
Parndon Mill
Parndon Mill Lock No.11
11
Cinders Bridge
Hunsdon Mill Lock No.12
Roydon Lock No.13
7
Roydon Railway Bridge
 B181  Roydon High Street
Roydon
Roydon Mill
Brick Lock No.14
Lower Lock No.15
Feildes Weir
Rye House Junction
(Lee Navigation)

The Stort Navigation is the canalised section of the River Stort running 22 kilometres (14 mi) from the town of Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, downstream to its confluence with the Lee Navigation at Feildes Weir near Rye House, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire.