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Saul Junction Boat Owners Club

The Saul Junction Boat Owners Club takes its name from the former canal ‘crossroads’ of the Stroudwater Canal and Gloucester Sharpness Canal. The Junction’, at the midway point of the 16-mile Gloucester Sharpness Canal, provides an idyllic half mile rural mooring on the Stroudwater Canal for the club’s 32 boats. The moorings are just 1½ miles from Junction 13 of the M5 Motorway, close to the famous village of Frampton on Severn.
There is a dry dock and working boat yard near by.Further interest is provided by the passage of leisure and commercial boats through a footbridge on the Gloucester-Sharpness Canal. The resident bridge keeper must swing this bridge by hand. A similar foot bridge gives access to the moorings.
At the far end of the moorings, a low-level bridge currently limits navigation towards Stroud. Plans are well advanced for the removal of this blockage and the eventual restoration of the Stroudwater Canal to link with the Thames Severn Canal beyond Stroud.
This will ultimately re-establish the waterborne link between the rivers Thames and Severn. The Club was formed in 1976 with the objectives: -‘To lease from British Waterways, administer, manage, promote, operate and maintain, a line of moorings on The Stroudwater Canal for the benefit of Club Members, their relatives and friends’.
Objectives have been realised ever since with regular social activities for the benefit of Full and Associate Members.
(Associate Members are those boaters who moor elsewhere in circumstances whereby their interests are not served by a club.)
The Club was incorporated into a Limited Company in 1988. The company status enables the Club to negotiate with British Waterways, or other bodies, in a way that may be beneficial to the members.
Since 1995, the Junction has been the venue for the Annual Saul Canal Festival. This event is aimed at raising public and official awareness of the Junction and its potential as a focal point for local waterways, their preservation and restoration for the benefit of all.

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Saul Junction Boat Owners Club
The Saul Junction Boat Owners Club takes its name from the former canal ‘crossroads’ of the Stroudwater Canal and Gloucester Sharpness Canal. The Junction’, at the midway point of the 16-mile Gloucester Sharpness Canal, provides an idyllic half mile rural mooring on the Stroudwater Canal for the club’s 32 boats. The moorings are just 1½ miles from Junction 13 of the M5 Motorway, close to the famous village of Frampton on Severn. There is a dry dock and working boat yard near by.Further interest is provided by the passage of leisure and commercial boats through a footbridge on the Gloucester-Sharpness Canal. The resident bridge keeper must swing this bridge by hand. A similar foot bridge gives access to the moorings. At the far end of the moorings, a low-level bridge currently limits navigation towards Stroud. Plans are well advanced for the removal of this blockage and the eventual restoration of the Stroudwater Canal to link with the Thames Severn Canal beyond Stroud. This will ultimately re-establish the waterborne link between the rivers Thames and Severn. The Club was formed in 1976 with the objectives: -‘To lease from British Waterways, administer, manage, promote, operate and maintain, a line of moorings on The Stroudwater Canal for the benefit of Club Members, their relatives and friends’. Objectives have been realised ever since with regular social activities for the benefit of Full and Associate Members. (Associate Members are those boaters who moor elsewhere in circumstances whereby their interests are not served by a club.) The Club was incorporated into a Limited Company in 1988. The company status enables the Club to negotiate with British Waterways, or other bodies, in a way that may be beneficial to the members. Since 1995, the Junction has been the venue for the Annual Saul Canal Festival. This event is aimed at raising public and official awareness of the Junction and its potential as a focal point for local waterways, their preservation and restoration for the benefit of all.


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