The Coates Portal or entrance to the tunnel which stretches for just over 2 miles to re-emerge at Daneway Portal, Sapperton. Completed in 1789 it took five years to dig by hand and explosives, and a number of lives were lost in construction.

Date:
1904
Location:
Thames And Severn Canal, Sapperton Tunnel, Coates, Cotswold, Gloucestershire
Reference:
CC56/01043
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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This is part of the Series: HWT01/01 Glass Plate Negatives And Inkjet Prints; within the Collection: HWT01 Henry W Taunt Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Curator: Birks, Moira

Photographer: Taunt, Henry William

Keywords

Hanoverian Portal, Hanoverian Canal, Water Transport, Engineering