Tunnels on the Canal

Three tunnels were originally planned although it was found that a fourth was needed.

Putnal Tunnel – 330 yards

Newnham Tunnel – 100 yards (not originally planned)

Southnett Tunnel – 1,250 yards

Pensax Tunnel – 3,850 yards

Lock Cottage on the canal near Woofferton 1969, now demolished

There were originally two cottages here and housed the Canal Company surveyor and family who also oversaw the two Woofferton locks. A smaller adjacent one housed a general company canal worker and his family and can just be seen in the distance to right.

Tunnels - Explain the Bat Cave. Had the Pensax tunnel been completed, at 2 ¼ miles it would have been the third longest canal tunnel in Britain.