Gloucester and Sharpness Canal

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River Severn (Gloucester) Gloucester Dock Lock (with lift bridge over) Gloucester Docks Victoria Dock Dry Dock Barge Arm Llanthony Bridge Llanthony Wharf, Bakers Quay High Orchard Bridge,  A430  Inner Ring Road Monk Meadow Dock Hempstead Bridge Old section of Two Mile Bend Netheridge Bridge,  A430  South-Western Bypass Old section of Two Mile Bend Simms Bridge Rea Bridge Sellars Bridge Parkend Bridge River Frome Whitminster Weir feeder and overflow Wycliffe College Boat Club Saul Junction Foot Bridge Stroudwater Navigation (Saul Junction) Saul Junction Marina Dry Dock Sandfield Bridge Power lines to Lydney (clearance 105 feet (32 m)) Fretherne Bridge Splatt Bridge Former canal basin at Cambridge Cambridge Arm, River Cam Cambridge Arms Bridge Slimbridge Wetland Reserve Patch Bridge Purton Water Treatment Works Bristol Water pipeline to Pucklechurch Purton Upper Bridge Purton Lower Bridge Purton Hulks Severn Railway Bridge remains Sharpness Barge Arm (from old entrance) High Level Bridge Low Level Bridge Sharpness New Dock Sharpness Lock Tidal Basin Tidal Basin Gates Severn Estuary (Sharpness)

The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal (also known as the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal) is a ship canal in the west of England, between Gloucester and Sharpness, completed in 1827. For much of its length the canal runs close to the tidal River Severn, but it cuts off a significant loop in the river, at a once-dangerous bend near Arlingham. It was once the broadest and deepest canal in the world. The canal is 26.5 km (16.5 miles)^[1] long.