The flash lock at King Street, West Deeping
Situated below the St Andrews lock was a turning point and entrance to a storage pound, below this a flash lock kept the road clear of water when not needed.
Being wasteful and reducing the depth for boats going up it was replaced by a stone bridge at some time between 1813 and 1853. Liz Noble, a local artist, has painted her impression of what the stone bridge looked like then.
The exit from the later storage pound was via another road crossing 50 yards or so south which took barges into the wharfage area for unloading and reloading.
The ford at the lower road crossing had a wooden bridge built over it privately by a farmer because of the effects on his cattle of going through the filthy water. This wasn’t the wooden bridge mentioned in the sale lots, just 201 yards away - here --v
The Stamford Canal << The earliest proper canal in England? <<
