2015

SP4560 : Oxford Canal: Napton on the Hill winding hole

taken 9 years ago, near to Napton on The Hill, Warwickshire, England

Oxford Canal: Napton on the Hill winding hole
Oxford Canal: Napton on the Hill winding hole
A winding (pronounced win-ding) hole is a point where the canal has been widened to enable long narrowboats to reverse direction.

This one is not shown on any old large scale Ordnance Survey maps, so it is almost certainly not part of the original fabric of the canal. There would not have been any commercial reason to have one here, so it was probably constructed once the leisure business on the canals started, and boaters coming from the Grand Union Canal at Napton Junction needed to turn round before having to pass through the Napton flight of locks.

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Geographical Context: Canals Primary Subject: Canal Facility
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Napton Hill [17] · Winding Hole [3] ·
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SP4560, 79 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Nigel Cox   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 2 August, 2015   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 11 November, 2018
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SP 4556 6095 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:14.6913N 1:20.0483W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SP 4552 6095
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EAST (about 90 degrees)
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