Latton Basin
a small piece of canal history

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New Album
29th February

T&S Bridge
Weymoor Bridge
exposed--pictures

T&S Bridge
Weymoor Bridge
update from "The
Trow"

Latton Village
Kelly's directory
1895

Before Alfred
there was
Joseph Aldworth

Howse Family
A glimpse into the distant past

Genealogy

Howse
world-wide

North Wilts
1810-1820

History

1851 Census
Who lived in the area in
1851

Staunch

Last working
boat through Latton.

Butterfield
Victorian 'photo album.

Donations

Habgood
Strange goings on by an old Latton family.
 

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Dates for your Diary   Things to come   Planned events.

  Date Place Contact
Next  Scheduled Work Party Wednesday
16th May
Latton Basin Email Doug Small for details.

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First boat for a hundred years?

 
Removed -another large tree stump that has seriously damaged the wall.

Rebuilding has now begun.


When the North Wilts Canal was completed in 1819 it provided a link from the Wilts and Berks Canal at Swindon to the Thames and Severn Canal at Latton.  In order to preserve water supplies a stop lock, with little or no change of level, was built at Latton.  A large basin was also constructed in order to allow for the transhipment of cargoes between the boats of different dimension which traded on the respective canals.  The North Wilts boats were 72' by 7', whereas boats on the Thames and Severn were of differing lengths and wider beam.

 
1890


Summer 2005


December 2005


March 13th 2008
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9th January 2009
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Brian's Howse Family Homepage.


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