Between the bottom lock and Moorcroft Junction, the canal is level with the Walsall Canal and so is still in water, although it is heavily overgrown.
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This locking system, either extruded or rolled has a bottom lock which locks into either a start piece or onto the top lock of the panel below.
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The'Island Line'- Thomas Telford's BCN New Main Line cut in a straight line from Tipton Factory Locks towards Spon Lane bottom lock ( Bromford Junction, and then on to Smethwick and Birmingham ).
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Since the lock was only needed to get the boats over the lower cill, the bottom lock only had a minimum rise, and would not even be needed on good spring tides, or during high river flows.
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The pound below Burgedin Bottom Lock is the sump pound of the canal, the Eastern Branch of the Montgomeryshire being filled by lockings from the Ellesmere, the Tanat feeder at Carreghofa, and a feeder from the River Rhiw at Berriew.
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There are no tunnels on the Macclesfield Canal, but there are several impressive embankments, e . g . at Bollington and High Lane on the upper section, and over the River Dane on the lower section, close to Bosley bottom lock.
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The longest canal pound in the United Kingdom is between the stop lock on the Trent and Mersey Canal at Preston Brook ( Dutton Stop Lock No 76 ) and the start of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal near Leigh ( Poolstock Bottom Lock No 2 ), a distance of.
