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(Line of canal in various ownerships, including North Cornwall District Council)
The Bude Canal is mostly a tub boat canal, but widens into a broad waterway from Helebridge to Bude and then concludes with a large Sea Lock. Restoration of the Sea Lock took place in 2000, largely financed by English Heritage, North Cornwall District Council and IWA. A £4,600,000 funding package with substantial support from the Heritage Lottery Fund has been put together by North Cornwall District Council, which owns the canal, to restore most of the Broad Canal between Falcon Bridge and Helebridge Wharf. This section still has two locks intact, with concrete ‘gates’, but unfortunately there are insufficient funds to raise the road bridges at either end, so it will remain an isolated section for the present. The pounds between these locks have been dredged by the Council in the past and remain in regular use by a local angling club. Bude Canal and Harbour Society and WRG undertook works to strengthen a long embankment on the lower pound and some preparatory works on the locks in the 1990s. Some clearance work was also undertaken on the tub boat canal inclined planes. It is unlikely that the tub boat canal will ever be restored to working order, but its structures are worthy of preservation and a tourist attraction in their own right.
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