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
The South Forty-Foot Drain at Pointon, between Boston and Guthrum Gowt. Here its origin as a drainage channel is very evident.
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.
The new lock at Black Sluice, allowing navigation from The Haven to the Drain
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
South Forty-Foot Drain
…pumping station led to the entrance lock being removed. It is currently being upgraded to navigable status by the Environment Agency, as part of the Fens Waterways Link, with a new entrance lock being completed in December 2008, giving access to the first 12 miles (19 km) of the drain, and the upgrading of the southern…
The new Fens Waterways Link route to Spalding is from the River Glen (foreground) right into the River Welland (middle distance)
Guthram Gowt. The location of the planned lock into the Glen is probably somewhere in this photograph if route 1 is adopted.