 The section where it joined was a straight cut, made to bypass a much longer loop, which broadly followed the boundary of the Weddell Wynd Community Woodland.One feature of the canal which is obvious from the maps concerns the locks and their associated lagoons.Locks 2 and 4 to 8 all have a central island in the middle of a wide canal, with a lock on the north side, and a large lagoon on the south side, which is labelled ""overflow"" at the downstream end where the cascade weir was.