Stort Navigation is the canalised section of the River Stort running 22 kilometres from the town of Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, downstream to its confluence with the Lee Navigation at Feildes Weir near Rye House, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire.
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The River Stort Navigation joined the River Lea, and the malt trade at Ware had benefitted from improvements made on that river.
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Stort Navigation was privately funded, there is no record of the actual cost, but Jackson, speaking in 1812 and by then named Sir George Duckett, stated that it had not been a good business proposition.
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The Lee Stort Navigation paid the proprietors £105 in 1774, for improvements made to the junction between the two rivers.
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Stort Navigation was to produce a report, including an estimate of the cost of construction, and give his opinion on whether any other route to Cambridge might be better.
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Stort Navigation's plan followed the obvious route, passing up the Stort valley, and crossing into the Granta valley to reach Cambridge.
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Stort Navigation hoped to avoid the opposition experienced previously by routing his Bishop's Stortford to Cambridge link to the west of the Shotgrove and Audley End estates.
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Stort Navigation did not find favour because his costings were thought to be wildly optimistic.
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The decline then stopped, and the Lee Stort Navigation gave serious thought to purchasing their neighbour.
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The Stort Navigation Valley Way is a 28-mile circular walk, while the Three Forests Way is a 60-mile circular walk, passing through Hatfield Forest, Hainault Forest and Epping Forest.
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Stort Navigation'sering Mill Lock is to the east, where the navigation is sandwiched between the village of Lower Stort Navigation'sering and the town.
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