This map shows the entire network of the Bude Canal System. The network, situated on the Devon-Cornwall border, ran to a total of 35 miles/57km in all, divided into its various branches.

At the coast is the 2mile/3km section known as the “Barge Canal”, as it was built to be able to operate canal barges. The remainder of the system was constructed for use by smaller “tub boats”. This comprised:

   - the Launceston branch, which ran close to the River Tamar to end about 2.5
     miles/4km short of that town;

   - the Holsworthy branch, which ran east into Devon to end just north of the market
     town of Holsworthy;

   - the Aqueduct branch, which ran between the Holsworthy branch and Lower
     Tamar Lake – this branch is the length in Trust ownership.

This map is reproduced from Ordnance Survey material with the permission of the Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (c) Crown copyright. DCC licence no. 100019783.2010.