Wardle Canal
The Wardle canal is the shortest canal in the UK at just 154 ft.[1]
Description
The canal lies in Middlewich, Cheshire, and connects the Trent and Mersey Canal to the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal, terminating with a single lock known as Wardle Lock. It was built in 1829 so that the navigation authority of the Trent and Mersey Canal could maintain control over the junction.
Maureen Shaw
Maureen Shaw, a boat woman who was well known to passing boaters as well as the local and canal community, lived in the Lock Cottage at Wardle lock for many years, with the result that it was often referred to as 'Maureen’s Lock'. Following her death in 2012, a memorial panel was placed at the lock in her honour.[2]
See also
- Four Counties Ring - a canal cruising ring that includes the Wardle Canal
References
- ↑ Adrian Rayson. "CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE – Hursts Ahoy and Llangollen Ho!". On Board Narrowboat FRILFORD (British Waterways No. 500645). http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~rayson/frilford25.html. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
- ↑ http://www.towpathtalk.co.uk/news/maureen-shaw-panel-unveiled-at-wardle-lock
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Wardle Canal) |
- Location map: 53°11’15"N, 2°26’29"W
- Jim Shead's entry on the Wardle Canal