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Gloucester Docks is a historic area of the city of Gloucester. The docks are located at the northern junction of the River Severn with the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal. They are Britain's most inland port. [1] The docks include fifteen Victorian warehouses, that are now listed buildings. [2] It also contains the Gloucester Waterways Museum ...
After a new dock was built in Sharpness in 1874 that was capable of handling larger vessels, the number of ships visiting the Gloucester docks declined and the custom house was moved to Sharpness. The Sharpness Lighthouse Authority was set up in 1888 to provide aids to navigation throughout the harbour area so that ships could enter the port ...
Sharpness docks began as a basin giving access to the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal. [1] There were no port facilities at Sharpness itself and all traffic proceeded up the canal to Gloucester. The original Old Dock opened, with the canal, in 1827. [2] The dock was separated from the Severn by a lock gate.
In the United Kingdom, a trust port is a port that is administrated as a trust by an independent statutory body set up by an Act of Parliament and governed by its own set of rules and statutes.
The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal (also known as the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal) is a ship canal in the west of England, between Gloucester and Sharpness, completed in 1827. For much of its length the canal runs close to the tidal River Severn , but it cuts off a significant loop in the river, at a once-dangerous bend near Arlingham .
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The Trust moved her to Gloucester Docks, and began restoring her as a typical West Country schooner, [1] but failed to secure a £2 million National Lottery Heritage Fund grant. Businessman Steve Clarke from Bideford, Devon then bought her. Towed by sea to Bideford, in February 1999 she was hauled out of the water by two 1,000 tonnes (1,100 ...