The Sapperton Canal Tunnel is a tunnel on the Thames and Severn Canal near Cirencester in Gloucestershire, England. With a length of 3,817 yards, it was the longest tunnel of any kind in England from
The Coates Portal at the south-eastern end of the Sapperton Canal Tunnel
Sapperton is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire in England, about 4.5 miles west of Cirencester. It is most famous for Sapperton Canal Tunnel, and its connection wi
Sapperton Canal Tunnel
…River Severn toward the periodically water-stressed Thames Basin; if so the tunnel and canal eastward could be used for this. The northern portal near Sapperton village was built between 1784 and 1789 by Josiah Clowes. It was restored in 1996. The southern Coates portal was built by the engineer Robert Whitworth…