Devon's Lost Canal

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Join me today as I take a walk along the stover canal to discover its secrets. The Stover Canal can be found in South Devon, to the west of Kingsteignton. It is within easy reach of the A38 and A380 and runs alongside the old railway line from Newton Abbot to Heathfield near Bovey Tracey.

We walk from Jetty Marsh Lock Here the canal linked with the tidal Whitelake Channel and onwards to the River Teign. A large basin was built to hold the barges until they could pass through the sea lock when the tide was at the right height. It was rebuilt in granite in 1824 and bears a plaque to that effect.

Onto the clay cellars and Teignbridge lock Just visible from the bridge over the canal on Old Exeter Road, little remains of this lock which was not rebuilt in granite as the others on the canal.

Then we go tp Graving Dock Lock Originally built as a normal lock, this dry dock was created by moving out the eastern wall and forming a ‘shelf’ on which barges could be taken out of the water for repairs to be made. The steam boiler allowed planks to be shaped to fit the hull. Pitch was used to seal the hull and splashes still remain to be seen at either end of the dock.

Onto Teigngrace Lock This was the site of the barge repair yard until the 1860’s when the railway arrived and the facility was moved downstream to Graving Dock Lock.

Finally we reach Ventiford Basin At the northern terminus at Ley Green, Teigngrace, is where clay from the Bovey Basin was loaded onto barges and taken down the canal to join the Whitelake Channel and the River Teign to Teignmouth. There it was transhipped onto coastal vessels for onward transmission to the Potteries.
In the 1820’s, Dartmoor granite from Haytor was brought here on George Templer’s ‘Granite Tramway’.

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