Kingswood Junction

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Kingswood Junction
legend (Lapworth railway station) Northern Stratford Canal Old Warwick Road (B4439) Reservoir in pound Lock 19 Reservoir in pound Lock 21, Lock 20 Lock 22 Southern Stratford Canal Grand Union Canal

Kingswood Junction (grid reference SP185709) is a series of canal junctions where the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal meets the Grand Union Canal at Kingswood, Warwickshire, England.

The junction consists of a 250 metre linking arm with two branches at the (western) Stratford Canal end and a simple junction with the Grand Union at the eastern end. One of the branches descends through a lock to the connecting arm. The other branch is taken from the Stratford canal below another lock.

The Stratford Canal (the Northern Stratford Canal) heads, via a flight of locks, towards the Worcester and Birmingham Canal at Kings Norton Junction. South of Kingswood Junction the Southern Stratford Canal descends through locks to the River Avon at Stratford-upon-Avon. The Grand Union leads north to Knowle Locks, and then Birmingham, and leads south to Hatton Locks and Warwick.

Lock 20 (left), leading to the Grand Union connecting arm. Lock 21 (right), leading to Stratford

Lock 20 (right), leading from the connecting arm to the Northern Stratford. To the left is the lockless arm leading to the bottom of lock 21.

A round-roofed cottage, typical of the Southern Stratford, on the corner of the lockless arm near Lock 22.

[edit] References

• Pearson, Michael [1989]. Canal Companion - Birmingham Canal Navigations. J. M. Pearson & Associates. ISBN 0-907864-49-X. 

Coordinates: 52°20′07″N 1°43′39″W / 52.3352, -1.7275