Lock 100 Metres North North-East Of Hearders Farmhouse

TEIGNGRACE TEIGNGRACE SX 87 SW

7/234 Lock 100 metres north north-east - of Hearders Farmhouse

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Canal lock on the disused Stover Canal. 1824 for George Templer of Stover Park q.v. This lock and the 2 other stone locks q.v. in Teigngrace were replacements for the original timber clad clay locks of the canal which was built by James Templer in 1790-92, the Engineer was Thomas Gray of Exeter. Granite ashlar. Splayed entrances at north and south ends. Revetment walls recessed for gates inside locks. Remains of later gates at north end only. Small C20 steel girder bridge over south end. The Stover Canal was nearly 2 miles long and joined the River Teign at Jetty Marsh near Newton Abbot where barges passed through the dredged Whitelake Channel to the estuary of the River Teign. The canal was a private venture and built to transport local ball clay to the Staffordshire Potteries and later to transport Haytor granite after the Haytor granite tramway had been built in 1820. Reference: Charles Hadfield, The Canals of South West England, p.p.118 to 122.

Listing NGR: SX8498374139