Fotheringhay Bridge span?

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Ok, I know it isn't on the East Coast (on the River Nene just south of Peterborough, in fact)! But I thought some of you might have headed inland at Wisbech in the direction of Northampton and be able to help me.

Could anyone confirm the max beam of vessels under it? My reference (Derek Bowskill's 'Norfolk Broads & Fens') says 13' exactly. This seems to be a bottleneck on the whole system as from my reading the beam is otherwise only restricted to 15' all the way to the Grand Union Canal.

Whilst I have no reason to doubt the authority, I did want to double check. How exact is this? Is there margin of error built in and who decides (the Environment Agy)?

Any thoughts gratefully recieved.

Simon, have you gone under it in your Heavenly Twins (13'9'' beam, if I've got it right)?
 
Waterscape.com quite often have some very useful information, be worth having a look there. Last time I went through was on our narrowboat so couldn't really say what the span is, but water levels decide if you have to duck under some bridges. Macnorton is based at PYC so may have more idea though
 
have a look at jim-shed.com for more details

"Lock Sizes and maximum craft dimensions: Length 78 foot, beam 14 foot. Note - Irthlingborough Bridge restricts the maximum beam of craft navigating the Nene to 13 foot. NOTE: For more details of maximum lock and craft sizes and the basis of these figures see Craft and Lock Sizes Page"

It doesn't look good /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
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"Lock Sizes and maximum craft dimensions: Length 78 foot, beam 14 foot. Note - Irthlingborough Bridge restricts the maximum beam of craft navigating the Nene to 13 foot. NOTE: For more details of maximum lock and craft sizes and the basis of these figures see Craft and Lock Sizes Page"

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Hmmm...may be wishful thinking on my part. Should've have more consideration they built it 500 years ago or whenever - don't know if it's from the ruined castle era, but it looks old.
 
Hi, Iv'e been on the Nene for many years and Ive took a Birchwood 33GT (11ft 6") through the bridge but the 33 with the large rear cabin won't fit!!

But to get to the grand union you have to navigate the Northamton arm, and the locks there are 7ft so its sewertubes only
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id be more worried about air draught,The places that cause problems are fotheringhay and the bridge at Barnwell,barnwell must be 7ft max.My boat has a beam of 7ft 10 inches ive had it up and through barnwell but the 6ft 10 inch restriction at the Northampton arm as macNorton stated is for sewer tubes

What beam is the vessel?
 
Matt, have you tried Thorpe bridge yet /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
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And this one has moore airdraught than Barnwell, It's a screens down area for me.
 
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id be more worried about air draught,The places that cause problems are fotheringhay and the bridge at Barnwell,barnwell must be 7ft max.My boat has a beam of 7ft 10 inches ive had it up and through barnwell but the 6ft 10 inch restriction at the Northampton arm as macNorton stated is for sewer tubes

What beam is the vessel?

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I was kind of working backwards and trying to work out what would fit under should I get a different boat for this purpose.

I work away from home in Northampton and have to stay over a couple of nights a week. I had a leftfield idea that I could have a boat at Billing Aquadrome which I could stay on 8-9 months of the year and take it out to the Wash for the summer.

Only trouble is I like multihulls - doh!

It doesn't sound too promising to me... ah well.
 
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