Canal basin

Waterway alongside or at the end of a canal

The canal basin at Brecon along the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal

A canal basin is (particularly in the United Kingdom) an expanse of waterway alongside or at the end of a canal, and wider than the canal, constructed to allow boats to moor or unload cargo without impeding the progress of other traffic, and to allow room for turning, thus serving as a winding hole. For inland waterways, a basin may be thought of as a land-locked harbour.^[1]

A basin was often associated with wharves around its perimeter, to support commercial users. In modern times, canal basins are more usually used to moor residential and recreational narrowboats.

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A canal basin at Williamsport, MD on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

A canal basin at Williamsport, MD on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Cushwa basin, a modern look at the canal basin in Williamsport.

Cushwa basin, a modern look at the canal basin in Williamsport.
Port Delaware on the Morris Canal, with boats waiting for cargo.

Port Delaware on the Morris Canal, with boats waiting for cargo.

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^ Shorter Oxford Dictionary - Vol 1 - "basin"

v t e Navigable canals of the United Kingdom
England	Aire and Calder ¹ Ashby-de-la-Zouch ² Ashton Basingstoke Canal Beverley Beck Birmingham Canal Navigations ³ Bridgewater Bridgwater and Taunton Buckingham Arm ² Bude ² Calder and Hebble ¹ Cambridgeshire Lodes ³ Chelmer and Blackwater ¹ Chesterfield ² Chichester ² Coventry Driffield Droitwich Erewash Foss Dyke Gloucester and Sharpness Grand Union ³ Grand Western ² Grantham ² Herefordshire and Gloucestershire ² Hollinwood Branch ² Huddersfield Broad Huddersfield Narrow Ipswich and Stowmarket ¹² Kennet and Avon ¹ Lancaster ² Leeds and Liverpool ³ Lee Navigation ¹ Limehouse Llangollen Lydney Macclesfield Maidenhead Waterways Manchester Bolton & Bury ² Manchester Ship Canal Market Weighton ² Middle Level Navigations ³ Montgomery ² North Walsham and Dilham ¹² Nottingham ² Oxford ¹ Peak Forest Pocklington ² Regent's Canal Ribble Link ¹ Ripon Rochdale Royal Military Canal Sankey ² Selby Sheffield and South Yorkshire ¹³ Shropshire Union ³ Sleaford ¹² South Forty-Foot Drain Staffordshire and Worcestershire Stort ¹ Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Stroudwater ² Thames and Medway ² Thames and Severn ² Trent and Mersey ³ Weaver ¹ Wardle Wey and Arun ² Wey and Godalming ¹ Wilts & Berks ² Witham Navigable Drains ³ Worcester and Birmingham Wyrley and Essington
Northern Ireland	Coalisland Canal Lagan Canal Newry Canal Shannon–Erne Waterway Strabane Canal Ulster Canal
Scotland	Caledonian Canal ¹ Crinan Canal Forth and Clyde Union Canal
Wales	Llangollen Canal Monmouthshire and Brecon ² Montgomery Canal ² Neath and Tennant ² Swansea Canal ²
Features	Aqueducts (list) Basins Locks Rings Tunnels (list) Winding holes
Related topics	British Waterways Canal & River Trust Scottish Canals History of the British canal system London Canal Museum Manchester Pusher Narrowboats National Waterways Museum Navigable aqueduct Waterways Ireland
Notes: ¹ Contains canalised river. ² Partly or mostly navigable, and/or under restoration. ³ A system of canals. Canals which form part of this system are not listed here individually.

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