The Canal Today
The canal was never nationalized and continued to belong to the North Walsham Canal Company. The canal is only navigable for the first 2 miles (3.2 km) from the Smallburgh end, up to Honing lock. There are moves to restore the canal and at present there is work going on to restore the bottom lock. The East Anglian Waterways Association has undertaken a detailed environmental survey of the canal and engineering studies on lock restoration and other technical matters and with help from the North Walsham and Dilham Canal Trust, has held regular work parties at Honing, Briggate and Ebridge Locks, to clear encroaching trees. Further north, both Bradfield Bridge and the bridge that carries Anchor Road over the canal at Bacton Wood Mill are grade II listed structures.
Some 2.25 miles (3.62 km) of the route, consisting of the pound above Bacton Wood lock, the lock itself, the pound below it and Ebridge Lock, were sold to the Old Canal Company in 2009, who intend to re-water this section. Work has concentrated on the lock at Bacton Mill, where reinstated water levels will enable the mill (which has been restored by its owner) to operate once more.
The residents of North Walsham made ten mosaics for the Millennium celebrations, one of which shows a Norfolk wherry.
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