Junction of the Guilsford Arm & the Montgomeryshire Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal; a flight of two locks on the Montgomeryshire Branch, associated with a lock-keeper's cottage (the basement of which is reputedly haunted) & crossed by a bridge (Nprn34564): canal authorised 1794, opened 1797, abandoned 1936, officially closed 1944, re-opened following restoration, 1998.

Source: Hughes 1983 'Archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal' 2nd ed., 150.
internet - various.

RCAHMW AP95-CS 0168

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