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|text=The '''Manchester Ship Canal''' is a river navigation thirty-six miles long in the very south of Lancashire and its border with Cheshire, built broad to take sea-going ships from the River Mersey inland to Manchester and Salford. | |text=The '''Manchester Ship Canal''' is a river navigation thirty-six miles long in the very south of [[Lancashire]] and its border with Cheshire, built broad to take sea-going ships from the River Mersey inland to Manchester and Salford. | ||
The canal starts at the Mersey Estuary above Liverpool. It generally follows the original routes of the rivers Mersey and Irwell through Cheshire and Lancashire. Several sets of locks lift vessels about sixty feet up to Manchester where the canal's terminus was built. Major landmarks along its route include the Barton Swing Aqueduct, the only swing aqueduct in the world, and Trafford Park, the world's first planned industrial estate and still the largest in Europe.}}<noinclude>{{FP data}} | The canal starts at the Mersey Estuary above Liverpool. It generally follows the original routes of the rivers Mersey and Irwell through Cheshire and Lancashire. Several sets of locks lift vessels about sixty feet up to Manchester where the canal's terminus was built. Major landmarks along its route include the Barton Swing Aqueduct, the only swing aqueduct in the world, and Trafford Park, the world's first planned industrial estate and still the largest in Europe.}}<noinclude>{{FP data}} | ||
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Manchester Ship CanalThe Manchester Ship Canal is a river navigation thirty-six miles long in the very south of Lancashire and its border with Cheshire, built broad to take sea-going ships from the River Mersey inland to Manchester and Salford. The canal starts at the Mersey Estuary above Liverpool. It generally follows the original routes of the rivers Mersey and Irwell through Cheshire and Lancashire. Several sets of locks lift vessels about sixty feet up to Manchester where the canal's terminus was built. Major landmarks along its route include the Barton Swing Aqueduct, the only swing aqueduct in the world, and Trafford Park, the world's first planned industrial estate and still the largest in Europe. (Read more) |