{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1968/schedule-12/part-II",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1968/schedule-12/part-II.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/73",
  "legislation_title": "Transport Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1968",
  "path": "schedule/12/part/II",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": "Cruising Waterways",
  "text": "The main navigable channels of the following waterways:—\nThe Ashby Canal from its junction with the Coventry Canal to Snarestone.\nThe Birmingham Canal from its junction with the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal at Farmer’s Bridge and from its junction with the Worcester and Birmingham Canal at Worcester Bar to its junction with the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal at Aldersley by way of the Birmingham level as far as the head of Factory Locks, Tipton, and thence by way of the Wolverhampton Level, including the branch leading to its junction with the Stourbridge Canal at Black Delph by way of the Netherton Tunnel.\nThe Birmingham and Fazeley Canal from its junction with the Birmingham Canal at Farmer’s Bridge to its junction with the Trent and Mersey Canal at Fradley, including the detached portion of the Coventry Canal between Huddlesford Junction and Fradley Junction and the Digbeth branch.\nThe Calder and Hebble Navigation from Sowerby Bridge to the tail of Greenwood Lock, including the Huddersfield Broad Canal to Aspley Basin.\nThe Chesterfield Canal from the tail of Morse Lock, Worksop, to its junction with the River Trent.\nThe Coventry Canal from its junction with the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal at Fazeley to Coventry.\nThe Erewash Canal from Tamworth Road Bridge to its junction with the River Trent.\nThe Forth and Clyde Canal.\nThe Fossdyke Navigation.\nThe Grand Union Canal from its junctions with the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal at Digbeth and Salford to its junctions with the River Thames at Brentford and at Regent’s Canal Dock, including the branches to Northampton and Aylesbury and the Hertford Union Canal leading to the River Lee at Old Ford.\nThe Grand Union Canal from Leicester to Norton Junction, including the branch to Market Harborough.\nThe Kennet and Avon Canal from High Bridge, Reading, to the tail of the bottom lock at Bath.\nThe Lancaster Canal from Preston to Tewitfield, including the branch to Glasson Dock.\nThe Leeds and Liverpool Canal from Old Road Bridge, Aintree, to Leeds, including the branches to Tarleton and Leigh.\nThe Macclesfield Canal.\nThe Oxford Canal from its junction with the Grand Union Canal at Braunston to its junction with the Coventry Canal at Hawkesbury and from its junction with the Grand Union Canal at Napton to Oxford, including the branch to the River Thames.\nThe Peak Forest Canal from the top of Marple Locks to Whaley Bridge.\nThe Ripon Canal from its junction with the River Ure to the tail of Littlethorpe Lock.\nThe Sheffield and Tinsley Canal from its commencement at the Sheffield Canal Basin to its junction with the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation at the tail of the bottom lock at Tinsley.\nThe Shropshire Union Canal from its junction with the Manchester Ship Canal at Ellesmere Port to its junction with the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal at Autherley, including the branches to the River Dee at Chester, to Llantisilio and to Middlewich.\nThe River Soar Navigation from its junction with the River Trent to Leicester.\nThe Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.\nThe River Stort Navigation.\nThe Stourbridge Canal from its junction with the Birmingham Canal at Black Delph to its junction with the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal at Stourton.\nThe Stratford-on-Avon Canal from its junction with the Worcester and Birmingham Canal at King’s Norton to its junction with the Grand Union Canal at Kingswood.\nThe Trent and Mersey Canal, including the branch to Hall Green.\nThe Trent Navigation from Shardlow to the tail of Meadow Lane Lock, Nottingham, by way of the Beeston Canal and part of the Nottingham Canal and including the branch to the River Soar and the length of the River Trent from its junction with the Nottingham Canal to Beeston Weir.\nThe Union Canal.\nThe River Ure Navigation from its junction with the Ripon Canal to Swale Nab.\nThe Witham Navigation from Lincoln to Boston.\nThe Worcester and Birmingham Canal.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 12 Pt. 2 inserted (S.) (1.4.2011) by The British Waterways Board (Forth and Clyde and Union Canals) (Reclassification) Order 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/118), arts. 1, 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 12 Pt. 2 substituted (18.4.2011) by The British Waterways Board (Kennet and Avon Canal) (Reclassification) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/889), arts. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Entry in Sch. 12 Pt. 2 inserted (6.11.1996) by S.I. 1996/2552, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 12 Pt. 2 inserted (S.) (1.4.2011) by The British Waterways Board (Forth and Clyde and Union Canals) (Reclassification) Order 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/118), arts. 1, 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 Pt. 2 modified (E.W.) by British Waterways Act 1983 (c. ii), s. 11(1)(2), Sch. 2 (with s. 18)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/73/schedule/12/part/II",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:29.968251+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}