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Description of Great Ouse Relief Channel: A 6.5 mile navigable channel from a lock at Denver Sluice to Wiggenhall Bridge just over two miles south of King's Lynn.
History of Great Ouse Relief Channel: Built around the 1960s as a flood relief channel running parallel yo the tidal Great Ouse and opened up to navigation by the building of a lock at Denver in July 2001.
For more details see the History page.
Waterway Group: This waterway is part of the River Great Ouse
Navigation Authority of Great Ouse Relief Channel : Environment Agency Recreation and Navigation, Region: Anglia Region, Kingfisher House, Goldhay Way, Orton Goldhay, Peterborough PE2 5ZR: Telephone 01733 371811 : Fax 01733 231840 :
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Great Ouse Relief Channel: Table of distances |
Miles |
Locks |
Navigable (N) |
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Junction with Old West River (Great Ouse) |
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1 |
N |
TF588008 |
143 |
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Downham Market |
A1122 Road Bridge. |
1.6 |
1 |
N |
TF600032 |
143 |
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Stowbridge |
4 |
1 |
N |
TF604069 |
143 |
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Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen |
6.6 |
1 |
N |
TF602112 |
143 |
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NOTE: N and U in the Navigable column above indicates that the node is navigable or unnavigable. If a D appears here it means that navigation is difficult or restricted to smaller craft.
Text and photographs copyright of Jim Shead.