Hawkesbury Junction

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Engine house and Coventry Canal (left), Oxford Canal (right)
Engine house and Coventry Canal (left), Oxford Canal (right)
Engine house at the junction, on the Coventry Canal
Engine house at the junction, on the Coventry Canal

Hawkesbury Junction, also called Sutton's Stop (grid reference SP360846) is the northern limit of the Oxford Canal where it meets the Coventry Canal, near Hawkesbury Village, Warwickshire, on the West Midlands county border, England.

The junction, a few yards within the Warwickshire border, is four miles north east of Coventry.

A stop lock on the Oxford Canal isolates the water levels of the two original canal companies, with the Oxford being a few inches higher. A disused engine house, built 1821, stands on the western bank of the Coventry Canal. It originally housed a Newcomen steam engine, brought from 100 years' service at Griff Colliery. Named Lady Godiva, it is now in Dartmouth Museum, having been decommissioned in 1913.[1]

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  1. ^ Perrott, David; Mosse, Jonathan (2006). Nicholson Waterways Guide 3 - Birmingham & the Heart of England. Collins. ISBN 978-0-00-721111-1. 

Coordinates: 52°27′28″N 1°28′08″W / 52.4579, -1.4690

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