page_title: Frankton Junction
section_title: Location
hierarchical_section_title: Frankton Junction / Location
caption_attribution_description: English: Montgomery Canal 0 mile milepost This is one of the replica mileposts being installed on the Montgomery canal. This is at the point where the canal branches from the Llangollen Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal. This milepost is on the right bank as you travel to Newton so the boater will see how far he has come and not how far he has to travel. Ideally this sign should be on the left of the canal as you travel to Newton.
context_page_description: Frankton Junction is the name of the canal junction where the Montgomery Canal terminates and meets the Llangollen Canal at Lower Frankton, Shropshire, England.
context_section_description: The junction is located in Lower Frankton, although mileposts along the Montgomery Canal give distances to Welsh Frankton, which is the next nearest settlement.
  The Llangollen Canal is spanned by two bridges, one either side of the junction. To the east is Peter's Bridge, while to the west is Rowson's Bridge, where the towpath crosses from the north bank to the south bank for a short distance. The Frankton Locks, consisting of a staircase of two locks and two single locks, lower the level of the Montgomery Canal immediately south of the junction. A little further along the canal, a fifth lock is named after Graham Palmer, the founder of the Waterway Recovery Group, which was heavily involved in the reconstruction work. The lock has a small fall, and was inserted to compensate for changes in the ground level which had occurred since the canal was closed in 1936.
  From the junction, the canal is level towards Llangollen for a distance of 3.4 miles (5.5 km), to the first of the two New Marton Locks.  In the other direction, it is level through Ellesmere Tunnel, and passes the Ellesmere Arm, the Prees Branch and the Whitchurch Arm, before reaching the top lock of the six at Grindley Brook, 16.5 miles (26.6 km) from the junction.
caption: Montgomery Canal milepost at the junction.
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