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Handford lock where the Ipswich and Stowmarket Navigation, opened 1793, came off the River Orwell. Traffic to Stowmarket stopped around 1910, but traffic continued to Bramford until 1929. The navigation was abandoned in 1932.
(Information from "Lost Canals and Waterways of Britain", by Ronald Russell, published by David and Charles.) '