United Kingdom
England
West Midlands Region
Staffordshire
Staffordshire Moorlands
Kingsley
Flint Mill Lock (Lock 17), Caldon Canal
United Kingdom
England
West Midlands Region
Staffordshire
Staffordshire Moorlands
Kingsley
Flint Mill Lock (Lock 17), Caldon Canal
Flint Mill Lock (Lock 17), Caldon Canal
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Location: Kingsley, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, West Midlands Region, England, United Kingdom
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This is the seventeenth and last lock on the Caldon canal. Like all locks on this canal it is a single width lock (approx 7' 6").
The Caldon canal is properly known as the Caldon branch of the Trent & Mersey canal, opened in 1779.
The canal runs from the junction with the Trent & Mersey canal at Etruria to its terminus at Froghall which is 17 miles in total. At Hazlehurst the Leek branch runs for 2 1/2 miles to its terminus at Leek.
The Uttoxeter branch used to leave the canal at Froghall but is now disused apart from the basin and first lock at the junction.June 6, 2020
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