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 Stratford-upon-Avon Canal - Definition 

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Canal aqueduct at Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire

The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal is a canal in the south Midlands of England. It is joined to the Warwickshire Avon at Stratford-upon-Avon. At the other end the canal connects with the Worcester and Birmingham Canal at Kings Norton Junction. Part of the way along the canal's length there is a connection to the Grand Union Canal at Lapworth.

The canal crosses the main road at Wootton Wawen in an unsual cast iron aqueduct.

By the late 1940s the canal had become completely derelict. The later restoration by voluntary effort was a turning point for the waterways movement in Britain.

A stretch of the canal in
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A stretch of the canal in Stratford

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