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Middle Level Navigation

Description of Middle Level Navigation: A network of waterways, primarily used for land drainage, between the Rivers Nene and Great Ouse.

History of Middle Level Navigation: Promoted by Acts of 1753, 1793, 1810, 1844, 1848, 1852, 1862 and 1874.
For more details see the History page.

Subordinate Waterways of Middle Level Navigation

• Middle Level - Black Ham Drain
• Middle Level - Bevill's Leam
• Middle Level Drain
• Middle Level - Forty Foot River
• Middle Level - King's Dyke
• Middle Level - New Dyke
• Middle Level - Old River Nene
• Middle Level - Popham's Eau
• Middle Level - Ramsey High Lode
• Middle Level - Sixteen Foot River
• Middle Level - Twenty Foot River
• Middle Level - Well Creek
• Middle Level - Whittlesey Dyke

Navigation Authority: : Middle Level Commissioners, Dartford Road, March, Cambridgeshire PE15 8AF : Telephone 01354 653232 :

Related Articles of Middle Level Navigation

• More than a Mooring - Fox Narrowboats
• More than a Mooring - Bill Fen Marina
• Flat Out for the Fens

Related Books of Middle Level Navigation

• Fenland River by Rodney Tibbs, 128 pages, Published by Terrence Dalton Ltd, in 1969, The Story of the Great Ouse and its Tributaries. Maps and 75 plates.
• Fenland Rivers by Iris Wedgewood, Edition: 1st edition, 164 pages, Published by Rich & Cowan, in 1936, Impressions of the Fen Country. 4 double page maps and 48 colour plates by Henry Rushbury R.A..
• Fenland Barge Traffic by J K Wilson and Alan H Faulkner, Edition: 1st edition, 32 pages, Published by Robert Wilson, in 1972, Based on a thesis by J K Wilson. Includes photographs and maps..
• The Fens by Alan Bloom, Published by Trent, in 1953,
• The Draining of the Fens by H C Darby, Published by Cambridge University Press, in 1968,
• Fenland by H Goodwin, Published by Cambridge University Press, in 1978,
• Vermuyden and the Fens by L E Harris, Published by Cleaver Hume Press, in 1953,
• The Fenland by A K Parker and D Pye, Published by David & Charles, in 1976,
• Portrait of the Fen Country by E Storey, Published by Trent, in 1971,
• A History of the Fens by J Wentworth-Day, Published by George G Harrap & Co., in 1954,
• A Bit More Boating by Shirley Ginger, ISBN: 0-9519198-1-4, 180 pages, Published by Lucifer Press, in 1992, Account of cruising the Nene, Middle Level, Grand Union, Thames, Oxford, BCN and Stratford waterways.. Order now from .
• Lord Orford's Voyage round the Fens in 1774 by H J K Jenkins, Edition: 2nd rev edition, ISBN: 1 870724 43 7, 64 pages, Published by Cambridgeshire Libraries Publications, in 1993, Three contempory accounts of the voyage by Mr Thomas Roberts, Mr Geo. Farrington and Lord Orford. Introduction by H J K Jenkins.. Order now from .
• Branch Line to Upwell - including the Wisbech Canal by Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, ISBN: 1 873793 64 2, 96 pages, Published by Middleton Press, in 1995, Order now from .
• The Canals of Eastern England by John Boyes and Ronald Russell, ISBN: 0 7153 7415 X, 368 pages, Published by David & Charles, in 1977, Order now from .
• Fenland Waterways by Andrew Hunter Blair, ISBN: 0 85288 759 0, 55 pages, Published by Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson, in 2004, A guide book to the Middle Level Waterways with maps and full commentary.. Order now from .

Related External Web Sites of Middle Level Navigation

• Fox's Marina Boat building, marina and hire boats based at March in the Middle Levels.
• The Fens Covers the fenland waterways from the Boston area to Cambridge.
• IWA Peterborough Branch All the news and events of the Peterborough Branch of the Inland Waterways Association.

 

Text and photographs copyright of Jim Shead.