Lock 12

This lock is partly exposed and visible above ground to the west and beside Coppice Lane.

Lock 12 drops the canal into one of the longest pounds on this canal - nearly a mile long. This stretch is still in water fed from a modest ground water supply - one of the few water sources available. The watered channel continues north east, its cutting giving way to an embankment as it approaches a water pumping station.

See Captain Ahab's Watery Tales on this section.

Photo: Lock 12 date unknown.