Uttoxeter Canal

Uttoxeter Canal
The basin below lock 1, restored in 2005.
Specifications
Length	13 miles (21 km)
Locks	19
Status	Possible restoration
History
Original owner	Trent and Mersey Canal Company
Principal engineer	John Rennie
Date of act	1797
Date completed	13 November 1811
Date closed	15 January 1849 (replaced by railway)
Date restored	July 2005 (1 lock and basin)
Geography
Start point	Froghall
End point	Uttoxeter
Branch of	Caldon Canal

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Legend
Froghall Wharfs, Caldon Canal Froghall 1st lock Froghall Basin Froghall locks (3) Wigley lock Whiston Bridge Jacksons Wood lock Morris or California lock Corrwood lock Oakamoor lock  B5417  Oakamoor Bridge Shaws lock Briddens or Briddles lock Ottersley Bank lock Shaws lock Farley Lane, Alton Alton tunnel (42 yd) Alton Towers Alveton or Wire Mill lock Charlesworths lock Bridge 70 (restored) Carringtons lock Crumpwood weir (R Churnet) Churnet Flood Lock Proposed new route  B5032  Denstone Lane Bridge Cottons lock Taylors lock Combridge Lane aqueduct Basin at gravel pits River Tean aqueduct Uttoxeter Basin

The Uttoxeter Canal pronounced (listen)^ⓘ was a thirteen-mile extension of the Caldon Canal running from Froghall as far as Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, England. It was authorised in 1797, but did not open until 1811. With the exception of the first lock and basin at Froghall, it closed in 1849, in order that the Churnet Valley line of the North Staffordshire Railway could be constructed along its length. The railway has since been dismantled and there are plans to reinstate the canal.