The Salem Beverly Waterway Canal, sometimes called the Grand Wenham Canal, is an aqueduct canal in Topsfield and Wenham. It was never used to transport anything but water and recreational canoeists.
The canal was built in 1917 to provide water for Beverly and Salem and is owned with its adjacent land by the Salem-Beverly Water Commission. It was dredged and widened in 1974, with gravel roads built on each side of the canal. The canal carries water from the Ipswich River, Topsfield, through the Wenham Swamp to Wenham. A pipeline also constructed in 1917 carries it to Wenham Lake.
The AllTrails website has a description and map of a hike at Wenham Canal.
Wheelchair accessible trail
Restrooms on site
Entrance fee
Content from Wenham Canal (Historic Ipswich) webpage
Last updated February 1, 2024