Fens Waterways Link
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The Fens Waterways Link is a project to improve recreational boating opportunities in the counties of Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, England. By a combination of improvements to existing waterways a
The new Fens Waterways Link route to Spalding is from the River Glen (foreground) right into the River Welland (middle distance)
Black Sluice Lock connects the South Forty-Foot Drain to The Haven at Boston.
The South Forty-Foot Drain at Pointon, between Boston and Guthram Gowt. Here its origin as a drainage channel, set below the level of the surrounding fields, is very evident.
Guthram Gowt. The location of the planned lock into the Glen is probably somewhere in this photograph if route 1 is adopted.
South Forty-Foot Drain
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The South Forty-Foot Drain, also known as the Black Sluice Navigation, is the main channel for the land-drainage of the Black Sluice Level in the Lincolnshire Fens. It lies in eastern England between
Fens Waterways Link
…connected waterways infrastructure. Schemes with a total value exceeding £20 million were implemented, the first of which was the reconnection of the South Forty-Foot Drain to The Haven by the construction of a new lock beside the Black Sluice pumping station. The schemes enabled new businesses to thrive, and resulted in…
The Holland Fen pumping station, which pumps water from Clay Dike into the South Forty-Foot Drain
Black Sluice pumping station at Boston, where the Drain meets The Haven, was decommissioned in 2018.