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.

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