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In its course it passes through, or nearly touches, the following 

 places and Lordships, viz., Louth, Keddington, Alvingham, 

 Covenham Saint Bartholomew, Yarborough, Covenham Saint 

 Mary, Grainthorpe, Fulstow, Marshchapel, North Thoresby, 

 North Cotes, and Tetney. Four of these places are honoured 

 with the designation of " Lordship." The proper or correct 

 name of the Louth Lock is the " Top " Lock. Then comes 

 " Keddington Church " Lock (and in the graveyard round that 

 church rest the mortal remains of some generations of Mr. 

 Hopper's paternal ancestors). After that " Ticklepenny " Lock, 

 (just one mile from the commencement of the canal), then 

 " Willow's " Lock, (by many now wrongly called " Carritt's " 

 Lock). Then " Salter Fen " Lock (again wrongly referred to 

 by many as " Willow's " Lock). Two miles have now gone by. 

 Then follow Alvingham Lock and bridge, and then the well- 

 known foot bridge opposite Alvingham and Cockerington 

 Church, and a few yards beyond this is the three-mile post. 

 Then comes the " High Bridge" and shortly afterwards "Out 

 Fen " Lock, which is the last on the canal before Tetney Lock, 

 just beyond which is the n-mile post. The stretch of water 

 popularly referred to as " the pond " between Out Fen Lock 

 and Tetney Lock is therefore seven miles in length, and it is 

 to that stretch of water the great majority of the Grimsby 

 anglers wend their way. 



The most popular resorts in this seven miles " pond " are 

 Austin Fen, Fire Beacon, Fulstow Bridge, Fulstow Drain End, 

 Thoresby Bridge, and the bend of the canal just before the 

 <)i-mile post where the canal trends in a N.N.E. direction 

 towards Tetney. Between Out Fen Lock and Austin Fen 

 there is a drain on the west side flowing into the canal which in 

 some way or other is generally referred to by anglers as 

 " Black Dike " end, but Mr. Hopper thinks this has arisen 

 from the similarity of name of another drain, more on the 

 Tetney side of Austin Fen, the proper designation of which 

 is " Hack Dike." 



The foregoing particulars will give a pretty accurate idea of 

 the canal, which should be throughout its course rather more 



