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                                                                          Laurel Wharf is a grade II listed building,
                                                                          built and in use by 1840. Built of stone, in the plain
                                                                          Regency tradition of storage architecture, the iron
                                                                          crane still projects over the loading doors that face
                                                                          the (now abandoned) canal. At Laurel Wharf the
                                                                          two and a half miles of Westport Canal ends.

                                                                          Westport was created as an inland port by
                                                                          the Parrett Navigation Company at the height of
                                                                          the canal era. Built on the western edge of
                                                                          Barrington Parish, at the levels of the moors and
                                                                          rhines settled in amongst South Somerset in the West Country
                                                                          meadowlands.

                                                                         The canal was worked until the 1880's. The
                                                                         turning bay at Laurel Wharf has been untended for
                                                                         more than a hundred years, now overgrown is a
                                                                         host to many different species of birds, wildlife,
                                                                         flora and fauna. The Canal leads into the River Isle
                                                                         which runs into the River Parrett, with footpaths all
                                                                         the way that lead you onto the Parrett trail and beyond.