New Bedford River

New Bedford River
New Bedford River at Oxlode
Specifications
Status	Open
Navigation authority	Environment Agency
History
Principal engineer	Cornelius Vermuyden
Date of act	1649
Date of first use	1652
Geography
Start point	Earith
End point	Denver Sluice
Connects to	River Great Ouse

v t e Old and New Bedford Rivers
Legend
to King's Lynn River Great Ouse and Relief Channel Salter's Lode Lock A G Wright sluice Denver Sluice Old Bedford Sluice Old Bedford River New Bedford River Lake Farm pumping station Upwell Fen pumping station Welmore Lake Sluice Cock Fen pumping station Footbridge to WWT Welney Welney flood control gate A1101 Delph Bridge, Welney A1101 Suspension Bridge Old Bedford and River Delph Glenhouse pumping station 100-Foot PS and Engine Basin March to Ely Railway Purls Bridge pumping station Oxlode pumping station Old Mill Drove pumping station Welches Dam pumping station Welches Dam Lock (derelict) Mepal pumping station Mepal Bridge A142 bridges, Mepal Sutton Gault bridges Counter Drain Old and New Bedford Rivers Earith Sluice A1123 bridges Hermitage Lock, Old West River to Bedford

The New Bedford River, also known as the Hundred Foot Drain because of the distance between the tops of the two embankments on either side of the river, is a navigable man-made cut-off or by-pass channel of the River Great Ouse in the Fens of Cambridgeshire, England. It provides an almost straight channel between Earith and Denver Sluices. It is tidal, with reverse tidal flow being clearly visible at Welney, some 19 miles (31 km) from the sea.