Waterways of Stoke-on-Trent - Newcastle Branch Canal

     


 

NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME CANAL ROUTE  

The Newcastle-under-Lyme to Stoke canal was a 4 mile level canal from the Trent & Mersey Canal at Stoke to Newcastle-under-Lyme.
It was authorised by an Act of 1795 and completed in about 1800, part closed in 1921 and abandoned in 1935 - subsequently filled in.
It was very little used, except by Spode, Minton and Wolfe whose pottery works were adjacent to it's Stoke terminal. As a dividend earner, it was a disastrous failure.

A Topographical Dictionary of England, Samuel Lewis, 1831:

"A branch canal from this town, about four miles in length, joins the Trent and Mersey canal at Stoke; and another to Apedale is used chiefly for the conveyance of coal hither."

Join us on a virtual 'walk' along the long forgotten route of the Newcastle to Stoke canal and along the way we can see the signs of the canal which are still visible today.


next: Map of the route of the Newcastle to Stoke canal

 

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Map of the route of the Newcastle to Stoke canal
1898 map of the Brook Street, Newcastle terminus and the Boat & Horses pub
The A34 and Lyme Valley Park
The Jewish Cemetery
The wood and remains of the canal in the Lyme Valley
1890 map showing the canal route under the A34 and through Trent Vale
1898 map showing the route through Boothen
Monument to Timothy Trow
Old photo of bridge near Nursery Street
Existing bridge balustrades on Corporation Street 
1898 map of the canal as it enters Stoke town
Old photo of the canal as it enters the tunnels in Stoke
Campbell place and the statue of Colin Minton Campbell
Church Street and the rise in the road over the canal tunnel
1898 map of the Spode works and the junction of the Newcastle and Trent & Mersey canals
1927 aerial photo of the Spode works and the Newcastle canal
Aqueduct Street & the 1800-26 Glebe map
Brook Street, Stoke
The junction of the Newcastle and Trent & Mersey canals


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