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• Lancaster Canal
  ...ompleted, and much of the southern end leased to the [[Leeds and Liverpool Canal]], of which it is now generally considered part. ...ck to Wigan Top Lock, remains navigable as part of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The planned continuation to Westhoughton was never built.
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• Royal Military Canal
  [[File:Royal Military Canal at Hythe.JPG|right|thumb|300px|The Royal Military Canal at Hythe]] '''The Royal Military Canal''' runs parallel to the coasts of [[Kent]] and [[Sussex]] for 28 miles, bet
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• Crinan Canal
  [[File:CrinanLockHouse3.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Lock House on Crinan Canal]] The '''Crinan Canal''' is a ship canal in [[Argyllshire]] which crosses the neck of land between the Hebridean Sea
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• Grand Union Canal
  [[File:Grand Union Canal at Braunston.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The canal at Braunston, Northamptonshire]] ...Union Canal - geograph.org.uk - 1397385.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Boats on the canal at Croxley Green]]
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• Caledonian Canal
  ...nian Canal - geograph.org.uk - 999996.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Caledonian Canal and Loch Ness]] The '''Caledonian Canal''' cuts through the [[Great Glen]] in several sections between the lochs to
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• Manchester Ship Canal
  [[File:Tanker ship canal.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The ''Stolt Kittiwake'' heading toward the Mersey Est The '''Manchester Ship Canal''' is a river navigation 36 miles long in the very south of [[Lancashire]]
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• Leeds and Liverpool Canal
  [[File:Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Burscough.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Ainscoughs Mill in Burscough]] The '''Leeds and Liverpool Canal''' is a canal in [[Lancashire]] and [[Yorkshire]], built for industrial cargoes and linki
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• Kennet and Avon Canal
  [[File:canal.at.bathampton.arp.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The canal at Bathampton, Somerset]] ...o.uk/map/#/show=Kennet_and_Avon_Canal map]); thus the Kennet and Avon is a canal provides the link in an inland navigation route from the [[Bristol Channel]
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• Llangollen Canal
  [[File:Llangollen Canal UK.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Llangollen canal: The final narrows before Llangollen]] The '''Llangollen Canal''' is a navigable canal which links [[Llangollen]] in [[Denbighshire]] with [[Hurleston]] in [[Ches
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• Oxford Canal
  [[File:Oxford Canal from Napton.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Oxford Canal from Napton-on-the-Hill, Warwickshire]] ...ptonshire|Braunston]] and [[Napton-on-the-Hill]], and on to the [[Coventry Canal]] at Hawkesbury Junction in [[Bedworth]] just north of Coventry.
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• Wilts and Berks Canal
  [[File:Wilts-and-Berks-Canal-Swindon.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Wilts & Berks Canal near Rushey Platt, Swindon]] ...rkshire]]. Its full course is 52 miles long linking the [[Kennet and Avon Canal]] at [[Semington]], near [[Melksham]], to the [[River Thames]] at [[Abingdo
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• Forth and Clyde Canal
  ...h & Clyde Canal, Bonnybridge - Larbert.jpg|thumb|275px|The Forth and Clyde Canal, near Bonnybridge and Larbert]] ...h]] and the [[Firth of Clyde]], at the narrowest part of the Lowlands. The canal is 35 miles long and it runs from the [[River Forth]] near [[Grangemouth]],
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• Union Canal
  {{Hatnote|Not to be confused with the [[Grand Union Canal]]}} The '''Union Canal''' is a canal which extends from [[Falkirk]] to [[Edinburgh]], constructed to bring miner
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• Newry Canal
  [[File:Victoria Lock Newry canal.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Victoria Lock on Carlingford Lough]] ...|Skempton |2002 |p=653}}</ref> and pre-dated the more famous [[Bridgewater Canal]] by nearly thirty years and the [[Sankey Brook|Sankey Brook Navigation]] b
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• Huddersfield Narrow Canal
  ...ach (RLH).JPG|right|thumb|300px|Lock 1E - Start of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal]] ...in at [[Huddersfield]] in [[Yorkshire]], to the junction with the [[Ashton Canal]] at Whitelands Basin in [[Ashton-under-Lyne]], [[Lancashire]]. It crosses
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• Exeter Ship Canal
  ...ol Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 255235.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Exeter Ship Canal at Salmonpool Bridge]] ...f file [http://www.exeter.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=7972&p=0 Exeter Ship Canal, The First Four Hundred Years], accessdate=13 September 2013
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• Bridgwater and Taunton Canal
  {{Hatnote|Not to be confused with the [[Bridgewater Canal]] in Lancashire}} [[File:Firepool lock.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Firepool Lock, where the canal joins the River Tone]]
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• Bridgewater Canal
  The '''Bridgewater Canal''' runs through southern [[Lancashire]] and northern [[Cheshire]] to connec ...[[Preston Brook]], south-east of Runcorn; and to the [[Leeds and Liverpool Canal]] at Leigh. It once connected with the [[River Mersey]] at Runcorn but has
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• Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal
  [[File:Bridge 114, Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal - geograph.org.uk - 1321305.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Bridges at Llangattock]] [[File:Brecon.JPG|right|thumb|250px|The canal basin at Brecon]]
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• Basingstoke Canal
  [[File:Woking-BasingstokeCanal.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Basingstoke Canal passing through Woking]] The '''Basingstoke Canal''' is a canal cutting through [[Hampshire]] and [[Surrey]]. It was completed in 1794, an
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• Thames and Severn Canal
  [[File:Brimscombe bridge.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The canal at Brimscombe]] ...[[Gloucestershire]]. It was completed in 1789 and conceived as part of a canal route from [[Bristol]] to [[London]]. At its eastern end, it connects to th
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• Stroudwater Canal
  The '''Stroudwater Canal''' or '''Stroudwater Navigation''' is a canal in [[Gloucestershire]], built to link [[Stroud]] to the [[Severn Estuary]]. ...ed a more direct route in 1810. Despite competition from the railways, the canal continued to pay dividends to shareholders until 1922, and was not finally
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• Gloucester and Sharpness Canal
  ...e:Gloucester and Sharpness Canal at Patch Bridge.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The canal at Patch Bridge]] [[File:Gloucester and Sharpness Canalmap.jpg|right|thumb|200px|A map of the canal from 1933]]
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• Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal
  [[File:OverBasinHerefordGloucesterCanal.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The restored canal basin at Over]] ...Canal''' (sometimes known as the '''Hereford and Gloucester Canal''') is a canal which in its day ran from [[Hereford]] to [[Gloucester]], where it linked t
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• Wey and Arun Canal
  [[File:Barnshill Bridge, Wey and Arun Canal - geograph.org.uk - 166068.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Barnshill Bridge, near Lox The '''Wey and Arun Canal''' is remarkable and somewhat eccentric canal running from southern [[Surrey]] and through and across [[the Weald]] deep
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• Monmouthshire Canal
  #REDIRECT [[Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal#The Monmouthshire Canal]]
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• Monmouthshire and Brecon canal
  #REDIRECT [[Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal]]
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• Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal
  #REDIRECT [[Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal#The Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal]]
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• Ulster Canal
  ...- geograph.org.uk - 673307.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The remains of the Ulster Canal at Tyholland, County Monaghan]] The '''Ulster Canal''' is a disused canal running through part of three counties, [[County Armagh|Armagh]], [[Tyrone]
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• Coalisland Canal
  The '''Coalisland Canal''' (sometimes known as The 'Tyrone Navigation') is a canal wholly in [[Tyrone]], built to serve the coal mines of the county. It is a ...did not reach its peak until 1931. Traffic then declined rapidly, and the canal was abandoned in 1954.
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• Shropshire Canal
  {{distinguish|Shropshire Union Canal}} [[File:Shropshire Canal Coalport.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Shropshire Canal at Coalport]]
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• Stockport Branch Canal
  ...ey Hey Lane Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 2411715.jpg|thumb|300px|Many of the canal's structures have survived, including this bridge at Abbey Hey Lane]] The '''Stockport Branch Canal''' was a five-mile branch of the [[Ashton Canal]] in [[Lancashire]] from Clayton to [[Stockport]].
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• Shropshire Union Canal
  ...ion Canal near Norbury Junction.JPG|right|thumb|300px|The Shropshire Union Canal near Norbury Junction]] ...has wider branches known as the [[Llangollen Canal]] and the [[Montgomery Canal]], all part of the same system.
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• Birmingham Canal Navigations
  ...sin towards Brindleyplace.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The head of the Birmingham Canal at Gas Street Basin, central Birmingham]] ...he [[Black Country]]. The network is connected to the rest of the national canal system at several junctions.
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• Dudley Canal
  [[File:End of truncated Dudley Canal, 1987 - geograph.org.uk - 1652530.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The end of the No. ...wider network of navigable inland waterways across the country. The Dudley Canal in particular forms part of the popular [[Stourport Ring]] narrowboat cruis
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• Southwick Ship Canal
  ...Canal - geograph.org.uk - 1633956.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Southwick Ship Canal]] The '''Southwick Ship Canal''' or '''Southwick Canal''' is a canal in [[Southwick, Sussex|Southwick]] that branches off from the estuary of th
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• Coventry Canal
  [[File:WTC badgersruleok b4-8.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Coventry Canal basin]] The '''Coventry Canal''' is a navigable narrow canal in the [[Midlands]], passing through [[Staffordshire]] and [[Warwickshire]]
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• Digbeth Branch Canal
  ...am.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Aston Junction at the start of the Digbeth Branch Canal]] [[File:Locks on the Digbeth Branch Canal.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Locks on the Digbeth Branch]]
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• Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal
  [[File:Ashby Canal Near Congerstone UK.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Ashby Canal near Congerstone]] ...tramways were constructed at its northern end, to service collieries. The canal was taken over by the Midland Railway in 1846, but remained profitable unti
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• Birmingham and Fazeley Canal
  ...geograph.org.uk - 1132701.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal from Cuckoo Bridge]] ...ingham and thereby connect Birmingham to [[London]] by way of the [[Oxford Canal]].<ref>{{harvnb |Rolt |1985}}</ref>
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• Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line
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• Ashby Canal
  #REDIRECT [[Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal]]
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• Wilts & Berks Canal
  #Redirect[[Wilts and Berks Canal]]
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• Grand Canal
  [[File:Grand Canal Dublin 2006.jpg|thumb|300px|The Grand Canal in Dublin]] .../sip070/A%20History%20of%20the%20Grand%20Canal.html A History of the Grand Canal]</ref>
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• Royal Canal
  [[File:Royal Canal Westmeath.jpg|thumb|300px|Royal Canal from D'Arcy's bridge, Westmeath]] [[File:Royal-Canal-Old-Mill-Dublin-2012.JPG|thumb|The Royal Canal as it enters Dublin city centre]]
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• Glamorganshire Canal
  [[File:Canal near Nightingales Bush.JPG|thumb|300px|The Glamorganshire Canal at Nightingales Bush, Pontypridd.]] The '''Glamorganshire Canal''' was a valley-side canal in the county of [[Glamorgan]], running from [[Merthyr Tydfil]] to [[Cardif
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• Aberdare Canal
  ...nIronBridge.jpg|thumb|300px|The cast iron bridge of 1811 which carried the canal tramway over the River Cynon]] ...ion of the A4059 road in 1923, although a short section at the head of the canal remains in water and is now a nature reserve. The company was wound up in 1
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• Neath and Tennant Canal
  [[File:Clun Isaf Neath Canal 1.JPG|thumb|300px|The exit from Clun Isaf lock, restored in 2007]] ...t was successful, as dividends of 16 per cent were paid on the shares. The canal was 13½ miles long and included 19 locks.
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• Neath Canal
  #REDIRECT [[Neath and Tennant Canal]]
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• Forth & Clyde Canal
  #REDIRECT [[Forth and Clyde Canal]]
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• Chesterfield Canal
  ...Canal - panoramio - PJMarriott (7).jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Chesterfield Canal at Shireoaks]] ...ar Chesterfield. Tapton Lock Visitor Centre is located on the Chesterfield Canal to the north of [[Tapton House|Tapton Park]].<ref>[http://www.derbyshire.go
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• Rochdale Canal
  [[File:Rochdale canal railway viaduct.jpg|thumb|300px|The castellated railway viaduct of the Manc The '''Rochdale Canal''' is a navigable broad canal in [[Lancashire]] and [[Yorkshire]], between [[Manchester]] and [[Sowerby B
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• Ashton Canal
  [[File:AshtonCanalDroylsden.jpg|thumb|300px|The Ashton Canal at Droylsden]] The '''Ashton Canal''' is a canal in [[Lancashire]] that runs from [[Manchester]] to [[Ashton-under-Lyne]].
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• Peak Forest Canal
  ...a.jpg|thumb|300px|Horseboat ''Maria'' Descending Lock 9 on the Peak Forest Canal]] The '''Peak Forest Canal''' is a narrow (seven-foot gauge) locked artificial waterway, mostly in [[C
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• Macclesfield Canal
  [[File:Macc canal near congleton.jpg|thumb|300px|Near Congleton]] The '''Macclesfield Canal''' is a canal in east [[Cheshire]], one of the six that make up the [[Cheshire Ring]].
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• Trent and Mersey Canal
  ...mersey canal near branston water park.jpg|thumb|300px|The Trent and Mersey Canal near Branston Water Park]] ...to the east of [[Burton upon Trent]] and west of Middlewich, it is a wide canal.
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• Trent & Mersey Canal
  #REDIRECT [[Trent and Mersey Canal]]
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• Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal
  ...jpg|thumb|300px|Kidderminster Lock on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal]] ...er Severn]] at [[Stourport]] in Worcestershire with the [[Trent and Mersey Canal]] at [[Haywood Junction]] by [[Great Haywood]].
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• Stourbridge Canal
  ...k - 839822.jpg|thumb|300px|The terminus of the Stourbridge Town arm of the canal]] ...River Severn]]) with the [[Dudley Canal]], and hence, via the [[Birmingham Canal Navigations]], to [[Birmingham]] and the [[Black Country]].
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• Worcester and Birmingham Canal
  ...Basin towards Mailbox.jpg|thumb|The start of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal at Gas Street Basin, looking south-east, towards The Mailbox]] [[Image:Worcester Birmingham Canal Locks.jpg|thumb|Worcester and Birmingham Canal locks. Feb. 2007]]
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• Stratford-upon-Avon Canal
  [[File:Stratford-upon-Avon Canal Locks.jpg|thumb|300px|A stretch of the canal in Stratford]] ...ing line is at Kingswood Junction, which gives access to the [[Grand Union Canal]]. Following acquisition by a railway company in 1856, it gradually decline
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• Stourbridge Extension Canal
  ....jpg|thumb|300px|The stub of the Extension Canal turns off the Stourbridge Canal feeder, and passes under the towpath bridge]] ...rt section of it is still used as moorings for boats using the Stourbridge Canal.
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• Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal
  ...ool Junction Canal near Norbury Junction, now part of the Shropshire Union Canal]] ...er Canal Company in 1845, which became the [[Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company]] in the following year.
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• Chester Canal
  ...the Ellesmere Canal, at Raymond Street, near the junction with the Chester Canal and the River Dee]] ...Mersey]] at [[Ellesmere Port]] from 1797, and the fortunes of the Chester Canal began to improve.
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• Walsall Canal
  ...re.co.uk/map/#/show=Walsall_Canal map]). It forms part of the [[Birmingham Canal Navigations]] ...he main canal rises through eight locks to meet the [[Wyrley and Essington Canal]] at [[Birchills Junction]].
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• Birmingham Canal
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• Netherton Tunnel Branch Canal
  ...it has no locks. The total length of the branch canal is 2½ miles and the canal tunnel is 9,081 ft long. ...Age. The first sod was turned by the Lord Ward on 31 December 1855 and the canal opened on 20 August 1858, providing a waterway connection between the [[Bla
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• Bumble Hole Branch Canal
  ...s a water-filled clay pit in the centre of the loop. Part of the bypassed canal loop, which surrounds Bumble Hole, is now in-filled giving access to the po ...obb's Engine House]], built in 1831 to pump water from coal mines into the canal.
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• Wednesbury Old Canal
  ...sbury Old Canal.jpg|thumb|300px|Pudding Green Junction. The Wednesbury Old Canal leads under the bridge from the BCN Main Line, which runs left and right]] ...sbury Canal (outlined in yellow) and its modern neighbours. Wednesbury Old Canal as it stands today is shown in pink/yellow.]]
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• Tame Valley Canal
  ...o.uk/map/#/show=Tame_Valley_Canal map]). It forms part of the [[Birmingham Canal Navigations]]. Built in 1844, it takes its name from the roughly-parallel [ ...where it meets the [[Birmingham and Fazeley Canal]] and the [[Grand Union Canal]]. It is 8½ miles long and has twin towpaths throughout.
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• Cannock Extension Canal
  ...n Canal boat builders.jpg|thumb|300px|A boat yard on the Cannock Extension Canal]] ...-and-rivers/cannock-extension-canal |title= Waterscape - Cannock Extension Canal|publisher=Waterscape}}</ref> Historically, it ran to [[Hednesford]], and se
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• Wyrley and Essington Canal
  ...ydWharfWyrleyCanal.jpg|thumb|300px|Sneyd Wharf on the Wyrley and Essington Canal]] ...lnrIndex&query=REF_CODE%3D%271460420%27 |title=Map of Wyrley and Essington Canal|series=Local Nature Reserves|publisher=Natural England|accessdate=4 August
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• Gower Branch Canal
  ...Junction on the Birmingham Level (453 feet above sea) of the [[Birmingham Canal Navigations]], and Bradeshall Junction on the BCN's older Wolverhampton (47 It facilitated travel between the [[Netherton Tunnel Branch Canal]] and the [[BCN Old Main Line]], without the need for a long detour to Tipt
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• Rushall Canal
  [[Image:Rushall Canal bridge and bottom lock.jpg|right|thumb|Rushall bottom lock in distance]] ...l suitable for boats which are 7 ft wide, forming part of the [[Birmingham Canal Navigations]] (BCN) on the eastern side of [[Walsall]], [[Staffordshire]].
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• Titford Canal
  [[Image:Langley Maltings, Titford canal.jpg|right|thumb|Langley Maltings]] ...ire|Oldbury]], [[Shropshire]] detached in [[Worcestershire]]. Parts of the canal also pass through detached parts of Worcestershire proper.
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• Caldon Canal
  ...aterscape.com/canals-and-rivers/caldon-canal |title= Waterscape – Caldon Canal|publisher=[[Waterscape]]}}</ref> ...ng locks, inclined planes were to be used at points where the level of the canal needed to change. Two more plans were considered, and the third included ex
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• Ellesmere Canal
  ...g|thumb|300px|The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct opened to traffic on the Ellesmere Canal in 1805.]] ...east Wales and the manufacturing centres in the west Midlands. However the canal was never finished as intended. Problems arose because of the project's ris
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• Montgomeryshire Canal
  [[File:Montgomery Canal sign.jpg|thumb|300px|Montgomery Canal milepost]] ...yshire]] and [[Shropshire]]. The canal runs 33 miles from the [[Llangollen Canal]] (at [[Frankton Junction]]) to [[Newtown, Montgomeryshire|Newtown]], via [
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• Montgomery Canal
  #REDIRECT [[Montgomeryshire Canal]]
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• Birmingham & Fazeley Canal
  #REDIRECT [[Birmingham and Fazeley Canal]]
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• Huddersfield Broad Canal
  ...bble Navigation]] at Cooper Bridge junction with the [[Huddersfield Narrow Canal]] near Aspley Basin in [[Huddersfield]]. ...which point the narrow canal across the Pennines was abandoned. The broad canal carried commercial traffic, particularly coal for power stations, until 195
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• New Junction Canal
  ...e:NewJunctionDonAqueductGates.jpg|thumb|300px|Guillotine gates protect the canal from the River Don]] ...avigation (Knottingley Canal). It is completely straight, and was the last canal built in England for commercial purposes.
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• Stainforth and Keadby Canal
  ...ve the port facilities at Keadby, but the completion of the [[New Junction Canal]] in 1905 made this unnecessary, as Goole could easily be reached and was a ...it might get stuck in the lock, resulting in flooding and draining of the canal.
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• Sheffield Canal
  [[File:Sheffield Canal - Cadman Street 01-04-06.jpg|thumb|300px|Sheffield Canal boatyard]] ..., where it leaves the [[River Don, Yorkshire|River Don]], to the Sheffield Canal Basin (now Victoria Quays) in [[Sheffield]], passing through 11 locks.
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• Somersetshire Coal Canal
  [[File:Dry Canal Locks at Combe Hay.JPG|thumb|300px|Disused locks near Combe Hay]] [[File:Somerset Coal Canal Map.png|thumb|300px|Map of the Somerset Coal Canal]]
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• Somerset Coal Canal
  #REDIRECT [[Somersetshire Coal Canal‎‎]]
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• Stratford-on-Avon Canal
  #REDIRECT [[Stratford-upon-Avon Canal]]
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• Cromford Canal
  ...wider canal network. It ran 14½ miles from [[Cromford]] to the [[Erewash Canal]], with a branch to [[Pinxton]]. .../www.waterscape.com/canals-and-rivers/cromford-canal Waterscape - Cromford Canal]</ref>
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• Daw End Branch Canal
  #REDIRECT [[Wyrley and Essington Canal]]
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• Dudley Canal Line No 2
  #REDIRECT [[Dudley Canal]]
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• Dudley Canal Line No 1
  #REDIRECT [[Dudley Canal]]
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• Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal
  #REDIRECT [[Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal]]
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• Worcester & Birmingham Canal
  #REDIRECT [[Worcester and Birmingham Canal]]
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• Tennant Canal
  #REDIRECT [[Neath and Tennant Canal]]
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• Swansea Canal
  [[File:SwanseaCanalPontardawe.jpg|thumb|350px|The canal at Pontardawe]] ...''Swansea Canal''' was a canal in [[Glamorgan]] constructed by the Swansea Canal Navigation Company between 1794 and 1798, running for 16½ miles from [[Swa
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• Rolle Canal
  [[File:Rolle canal lock.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Rolle Canal sea lock, Landcross, at high tide]] ...ay's [[Rosemoor Garden]].<ref>[http://www.bidefordpeople.co.uk/event/Rolle-Canal-Walk-RHS-Rosemoor-Garden/event-13049762-detail/event.html Rosemoor Garden]
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• Droitwich Canal
  ...owing the opening of the canal, ownership transferred to the newly created Canal and River Trust. ...ally "Inspector of the Works", he was busy building the [[Trent and Mersey Canal]] at the time, and so the contractor responsible for building the locks was
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• Royal Military Canal Path
  ...ry Canal Path - geograph.org.uk - 1352737.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Across the canal from the path]] [[File:Kent Long Distance Footpaths.png|right|thumb|250px|The Royal Military Canal Path and other long-distance paths in Kent]]
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• Beat Bank Branch Canal
  ...ire]] south-east of [[Manchester]]. It was to leave the [[Stockport Branch Canal]] in [[Reddish|South Reddish]] and it was to be lock free but with a short ...nal]], they decided to suspend all work on the unfinished Beat Bank Branch Canal. They informed William Hulton, the owner of the coal mines at Denton, that
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• Thames and Medway Canal
  [[Image:Hoo Peninsula.png||thumb|300px|The canal's route is close to the dashed line of the railway across the neck of the p ...format=PDF |publisher=geolsoc.org |accessdate=29 December 2016}}</ref> The canal was also intended to take commercial traffic between the two rivers.
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• Bedfordshire
  ...nstruct a new canal linking the Great Ouse at Bedford to the [[Grand Union Canal]] at Milton Keynes, 14 miles away.<ref>[http://www.b-mkwaterway.co.uk/trust
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• Buckinghamshire
  ...Slough and Aylesbury and disused arms to Buckingham and [[Wendover]]. The canal has been incorporated into the structure of Milton Keynes.
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• Devon
  ...r line approximately across the higher part of Dartmoor and then along the canal eastwards.
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• Dunbartonshire
  ...r, made their way through the southern districts. When the Forth and Clyde Canal was being excavated swords, pistols, and other weapons dropped by the fugit *[[Forth and Clyde Canal]]
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• Hertfordshire
  The [[Grand Union Canal]] passes west Hertfordshire, through [[Watford]], [[Hemel Hempstead]] and [
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• Inverness-shire
  ...rail. The lochs of the Great Glen have also been linked by the Caledonian Canal to provide a waterway through the Highlands. ...ne miles) issues from [[Loch Lochy]] and runs parallel with the Caledonian Canal, entering [[Loch Linnhe]] at [[Fort William]].
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• Lancashire
  ...d in bees; Manchester's industry reaching the world. The [[Manchester Ship Canal]] does indeed link Manchester to the oceans, by way of the Mersey. ...ewater Canal]], [[Rochdale Canal]], [[Ashton Canal]] and [[Manchester Ship Canal]].
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• Leicestershire
  ...e]].) Even in Melton though one cannot escape industrial history; the coal canal has been filled in but its gates stick up incongruously in the town's publi *[[Ashby-de-la-Zouch]] Canal
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• Midlothian
  ...oir, at the head of Bog Burn, was created to supply the water to the Union Canal connecting the Forth with the [[River Clyde|Clyde]].
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• Monmouthshire
  The Monmouthshire canal and the Brecknockshire and Abergavenny canal converge at Pontymoile near [[Pontypool]]. *[[Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal]]s
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• Northamptonshire
  ...ph.org.uk - 164606.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Kilworth Wharf on the Grand Union Canal]] ...-MuseumNotFree}} [http://www.stokebruernecanalmuseum.org.uk/ Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum]
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• Lancaster Canal
  ...ompleted, and much of the southern end leased to the [[Leeds and Liverpool Canal]], of which it is now generally considered part. ...ck to Wigan Top Lock, remains navigable as part of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The planned continuation to Westhoughton was never built.
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• Oxfordshire
  *[[Oxford Canal]] (part of)
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• Shropshire
  ...oseley]], [[Snailbeach]] and [[Highley]] as well as the [[Shropshire Union Canal]].<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/features/2002/09/iarecordings.shtml *[[Shropshire Union Canal]]
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• Staffordshire
  ...rialised the industry. From here too the potters had the first industrial canal dug to take their wares safely and in bulk from the factories to the towns. ...ater canals such as the [[Birmingham Canal Navigations]], and the [[Dudley Canal]] opened the Black Country likewise.
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• Stirlingshire
  The [[Forth and Clyde Canal]] crosses the south-eastern corner of the county from [[Grangemouth]] to [[
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• Surrey
  ...in England. The Wey Navigation, opened in 1653, was one of England's first canal systems. ...e South Coast. Dapdune Wharf in [[Guildford]] commemorates the work of the canal system and is home to a restored Wey barge, the Reliance.
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• Warwickshire
  [[File:Oxford Canal from Napton.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The Oxford Canal at Napton-on-the-Hill]] ...nal network, built during the industrial revolution, as was the [[Coventry Canal]]. The heavy-laden barges have stopped coming and the canals are now enjoy
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• Wiltshire
  ...n |first=Michael |authorlink=|title=Kennet & Avon Middle Thames: Pearson's Canal Companion |year=2003 |publisher=Central Waterways Supplies|location=Rugby | Around 1800 the Kennet and Avon Canal was dug through Wiltshire providing a route for transporting cargoes from [
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• Yorkshire
  ...[[Bingley Five Rise Locks]], built by John Longbotham, who designed the canal.
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• County Kildare
  ...west. A southern branch joins the Barrow navigation at [[Athy]]. The Royal Canal stretches across the north of the county along the border with [[County Mea ...s connects Kildare with Waterford, Dublin, Limerick and Athlone. The Royal Canal runs west from Dublin and parts of it form the boundary with [[County Meath
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• County Laois
  ...rrow Castle]], Heywood House and Emo Court. In 1836, a branch of the Grand Canal stretched to Mountmellick, further stimulating industry in that town.
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• County Leitrim
  ...to explore the Shannon and the [[Shannon-Erne Waterway]] &mdash; a 39-mile canal linking the two river systems. It is amongst the fastest growing towns in I
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• County Longford
  |picture=Royal Canal Longford long.JPG |picture caption=The Royal Canal
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• County Monaghan
  ...igation, however Waterways Ireland are embarking on a scheme to reopen the canal from Lough Erne into Clones.
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• County Offaly
  ...ning the [[River Brosna|Brosna]] near the town of [[Ferbane]]. The [[Grand Canal]] also runs across the county from Edenderry on the north-east to Shannon H The opening of the Grand Canal in the 18th century brought prosperity to towns such as [[Banagher]] and [[
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• Westmeath
  ...ed considerable advantage from the development of the [[Royal Canal]]. The canal facilitated cheap transport of produce to Dublin, Britain and Europe. Athlo ...wel]], Lough Coffey and [[Lough Ree]]. Both the Grand Canal, and the Royal Canal flow through Westmeath, and the [[River Shannon]] (Ireland's key tourism wa
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• Ringsend, County Dublin
  ...ds, and at the west end is the area of South Lotts and part of the [[Grand Canal Dock]] area. Neighbouring areas include [[Irishtown, County Dublin|Irishtow ...rs have seen significant growth in the area, particularly with the [[Grand Canal Dock]] Project. A number of high-tech multinationals including Google estab
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• Abingdon
  ...e town with the Great Western Railway at [[Didcot]]. The [[Wilts and Berks Canal]] was abandoned in 1906 but a voluntary trust is now working to restore and
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• Oakham
  The Oakham Canal connected the town to the Melton Mowbray Navigation, the [[River Soar]] and
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• Croxley Green
  ...the Grand Union - geograph.org.uk - 82678.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Grand Union Canal at Croxley Green]] ...en it and Croxley Common Moor, with a lock and many moored houseboats. The canal towpath provides miles of pleasant walking and across it the moor.
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• Inverurie
  ...modern development taking place after the building of the [[Aberdeenshire Canal]] linking Port Elphinstone with Aberdeen Harbour in 1806. The Inverurie Loc
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• Harefield
  ...d. Harefield has its own suburb, South Harefield, along the [[Grand Union Canal]] south of the main part of the village.
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• Wisbech
  ...north, and the [[River Nene]] was diverted to serve the town. The Wisbech Canal joining the River Nene at Wisbech was subsequently filled in and became the
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• Ely
  File:Ely frog.jpg|Canal boats moored on the river
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• Cwmbran
  ...quarrying and coal mining were established during this period along with a canal to transport goods to the docks at [[Newport, Monmouthshire|Newport]]. In 1 ...although the most significant water course is probably the [[Monmouthshire Canal]]. To the east of Cwmbran the land is less hilly, forming part of the [[Riv
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• Lochgilphead
  ...]], in [[Argyllshire]]. The town stands also on the banks of the [[Crinan Canal]]. It has some 3,000 inhabitants. ...rom [[Inveraray]] to [[Campbeltown]]. After the completion of the [[Crinan Canal]] in 1801 the town became more important as a link across the [[Kintyre|Kin
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• Campbeltown
  ...was linked to [[Machrihanish]] by a canal between 1794 and the 1880s. The canal was superseded by the Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway until the
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• Newry
  ...h the centre of town, parallel to the canal. The city also lies, where the canal enters the sea at Victoria Locks.
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• Kilwinning
  ...xpenditure on the Ardrossan harbour and the Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal. The castle fell into disrepair after being unroofed in 1925 and was used f
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• Braunston
  ...e is its canal junction between the [[Oxford Canal]] and the [[Grand Union Canal]], which was once an important part of the national transport system. Many ...nals: the junction was moved in the course of improvements to the [[Oxford Canal]].
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• Todmorden
  ...dustrial growth. These included the building of better roads, the Rochdale Canal (1804) and the main line of the Manchester and Leeds Railway (1841), which ...bouldering. It has a [http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/rochdale/rc7.htm canal and locks], Sports Centre, skateboard park, tennis courts, golf course, aqu
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• Stanley, Falkland Islands
  ...ng at first in ship repairs; indeed, before the construction of the Panama Canal, Port Stanley was a major repair stop for boats travelling through the Stra
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• Manchester
  ...n 1761, bringing coal from mines at [[Worsley]] to central Manchester. The canal was extended to the Mersey at Runcorn by 1776. The combination of competiti ...opulation, required a large transport and distribution infrastructure: the canal system was extended, and Manchester became one end of the world's first int
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• Tredegar
  ...5, a joint venture between the Tredegar Iron Company and the Monmouthshire Canal resulted in the early development of what became the Merthyr, Tredegar and
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• Reading
  ...arent the new route benefited the town. The opening of the Kennet and Avon Canal in 1810 made it possible to go by barge from Reading to the [[Bristol Chann
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• Newbury
  ...erkshire]]. It is stands on the [[River Kennet]] and the [[Kennet and Avon Canal]], and has a town centre containing many 17th century buildings. Newbury is The [[River Kennet]] and the [[Kennet and Avon Canal]] flow through the centre of the town, while the [[River Lambourn]] partly
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• Eyemouth
  ...al of a group of Dutch engineers in the town a survey was undertaken for a canal linking Eyemouth to Duns. The plan would have involved damming the [[Whitea
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• Leighton Buzzard
  The [[Grand Union Canal]] passes between Leighton Buzzard and Linslade, its towpaths providing popu The [[Grand Union Canal]] was opened at Leighton Buzzard.
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• Tavistock
  The Tavistock Canal, running parallel to the Tavy from the Bedford Hotel was built by the 7th D ...seriously mined in the area, to such an extent that by 1817 the Tavistock Canal had been dug (most of the labour being done by French prisoners of war from
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• Dingwall
  ...he shortest and most northerly canal in the United Kingdom, the [[Dingwall Canal]]. It is more comprehensively connected by the A9 road and by rail by the F
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• Milton Keynes
  ...phy of Milton Keynes &ndash; the railway line, Watling Street, Grand Union Canal, M1 motorway &ndash; sets up a very strong north-south axis. If you've got ...ed as linear parks that run right through Milton Keynes. The [[Grand Union Canal]] is another green route (and demonstrates the level geography of the area&
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• Brecon
  [[File:Brecon.JPG|right|thumb|250px|The Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal basin at Brecon]] ...unication; the canal is disjointed by obstructions and road crossings. The canal was built between 1797 and 1812 to link Brecon with Newport and the [[River
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• Birmingham
  [[File:Brindleyplace Birmingham.jpg|thumb|250px|The BCN Main Line canal at Brindleyplace]] ...als joining Birmingham and the Black Country are known as the [[Birmingham Canal Navigations]].
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• Stroud
  ..., and soon came the Stroudwater Navigation canal and the Thames and Severn Canal. Both are closed but plans are afoot to restore the canals as a leisure fa
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• Louth, Lincolnshire
  ...come the forty six feet differential in levels involved. Trade through the canal was brisk and there were regular sailings to London and Hull and other loca
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• Bala
  ...self, Thomas Telford raised the level of the lake to support the Ellesmere Canal. The Lake is amongst the hills and takes the water of several rivers, prin
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• Glasgow
  ...gineered goods and steel, which were exported. The opening of the Monkland Canal and basin at Port Dundas in 1795, facilitated access to the iron-ore and co
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• Banbury
  The arrival of the [[Oxford Canal]] and the railways enabled the already prominent industries to continue. At
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• Linlithgow
  ...ding into new areas. This southward development was bisected by the Union Canal and latterly the main Edinburgh-Glasgow railway line, and today the limited ...Road basin.<ref> {{cite web|url=http://www.lucs.org.uk/ |title=Linlithgow Canal Centre |accessdate=2008-04-08 }}</ref>
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• Inverness
  * The [[Caledonian Canal]] joining the two sets of lochs and thus providing a boat passage from the ...ilver chain was found at {{getmap|NH65424346}} when digging the Caledonian Canal in 1809.</ref> A church or a monk's cell is thought to have been establishe
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• Wembley
  Nearby Sudbury Golf Course backs onto the [[Grand Union Canal]] with its towpath running into central London. Sudbury Squash and Tennis C ...tury by damming the [[River Brent]] to provide water for the [[Grand Union Canal]].
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• Leeds
  ...ding of the Aire and Calder Navigation in 1699 and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in 1816. The railway network constructed around Leeds, starting with the Le
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• Exeter
  ...quay at [[Topsham]]. Trade with the sea was not restored until the Exeter Canal opened in 1566. In 1677 the Exeter Canal was extended and the entrance was moved downstream to Topsham. In 1701 it w
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• Newton Abbot
  ===Ball clay and the Stover Canal=== ...ere out-competed by the more economic Cornish coastal quarries. The Stover canal reverted to shipping ball clay—which only really stopped by 1939.
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• Tiverton
  ...re in the South West. Trade was aided when a branch of the [[Grand Western Canal]] from Taunton to Tiverton was opened in 1838, followed shortly afterwards ...w remains as footpaths and the Adventure Playground, and the Grand Western Canal was saved from dereliction and revived as a Country Park.
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• Black Country
  ...Navigations]], [[Stourbridge Canal]] and the [[Dudley Canal]] (the Dudley Canal Line No 1 and the Dudley Tunnel) opened up the mineral wealth of the area t [[File:Dudley canal tunnel & narrow boat.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Canal mouth near Dudley]]
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• Brentford
  ...ring Tide, Twilight, 20050113.jpg|thumb|The Thames Lock on the Grand Union Canal at Brentford]] ...5 Start of operations of the Grand Junction Canal (later the [[Grand Union Canal]])
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• Camden Town
  ...en Town a knot of railway lines, A-roads and a branch of the [[Grand Union Canal]] meet, creating a very busy urban centre. ...y development of the railways, which reinforced its position on the London canal network. The area's industrial economic base has been replaced by service i
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• Ruislip
  ...shed as a reservoir to feed the [[Grand Union Canal#History|Grand Junction Canal]], by damming and flooding the lower part of the valley between Park Wood a
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• Southall
  ...d Junction Canal]]) which first linked London with the rest of the growing canal system. It was one of the last canals to carry significant commercial traff ...Martin Brothers set up a ceramics factory in an old soap works next to the canal and until 1923, produced distinctive ceramics now known and collected as Ma
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• Uxbridge
  The [[Grand Junction Canal]] opened in 1794, linking Uxbridge with [[Birmingham]]. By 1800 Uxbridge ha ...anal in Uxbridge - geograph.org.uk - 317504.jpg|thumb|left|The Grand Union Canal in Uxbridge was extended to Uxbridge in the late 18th century.]]
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• West Drayton
  ...f the line formed by the [[Great Western Main Line]] and the [[Grand Union Canal]], both of which run east-west, with [[Yiewsley]] to the north. It is situa Historically, employment was commonly connected to the railway and the canal. In the modern day, West Drayton tends to be more of a commuter town, owing
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• Stoke-on-Trent
  ...of the local pottery industry. The construction of the [[Trent and Mersey Canal]] enabled the import of china clay from [[Cornwall]] together with other ma
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• Burslem
  ...Longport, Westport, Trubshaw Cross, and Brownhills. [[The Trent and Mersey Canal]], one of the sources of Burslem's growth into a major industrial town, cut ...the feel of Victorian Burslem, with its many potteries, mines, and working canal barges. The Burslem of the 1930s to the 1980s is evoked by the paintings an
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• Stoke-upon-Trent
  ...to the Potteries (and pottery safely away). Many of the promoters of the canal were pottery magnates. * the Trent and Mersey canal and its National Cycle Network long-distance bicycle paths (NCN Route 5)
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• Leek
  ...k Tunnel - geograph.org.uk - 3934.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Leek Tunnel on the canal]]
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• Ramsey, Huntingdonshire
  ...by the church. During the mediæval period the Great Whyte was a navigable canal that ran through the present road. It was culverted around the middle of th The canal of Great Whyte was culverted around the middle of the nineteenth century to
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• Woking
  The Basingstoke Canal passes through the north of the town. Modern Woking was formed in the area to the south of the [[Basingstoke Canal]] (which opened in 1794) around the railway station, built over 150&nbsp;ye
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• Ealing
  ...ed travel (the Great Western Railway and two branches of the [[Grand Union Canal]]), villages began to grow into towns and merged into unbroken residential
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• Dartmoor
  ...able early tramway with stone rails; ran from quarries at Haytor to Stover Canal *Tavistock Canal &ndash; 19th century canal
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• River Ouzel
  ...s since been diverted into the Grand Junction Canal (now the [[Grand Union Canal]]), which follows the course of the Ouzel from just south of Leighton Buzza ...rough that town, where it is joined by Water Eaton Brook. The Grand Union Canal parts company with the Ouzel at Milton Keynes and various loops of the two
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• Stratford-upon-Avon
  The Bancroft Gardens run from Waterside to the River Avon and include a canal basin. During the summer months there are often street performers performin ...n has numerous cycle paths, and is the terminus of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal where it meets the Avon. A park and ride]] scheme was launched in 2006. The
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• Edinburgh
  ...buildings was dumped into the loch, creating what is now The Mound and the canal idea was abandoned. In the mid-19th century the National Gallery of Scotlan
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• Deddington
  ...harf is about two miles east of Deddington, between Aynho and Clifton. The canal brought Warwickshire coal to the area, immediately reducing the local price *{{cite book |last=Compton |first=Hugh J |title=The Oxford Canal |year=1976 |place=Newton Abbot |publisher=David & Charles |isbn=0-7153-7238
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• Macclesfield
  [[File:Macclesfield Canal and Hurdsfield Flats.jpg|thumb|left|Macclesfield Canal]] ...acclesfield Canal was constructed,<ref>{{cite web | title=The Macclesfield Canal|author=Tim Boddington| url=http://www.macclesfieldcanal.org.uk/|accessdate=
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• Runcorn
  ...town is the [[River Weaver]] and the Weston Canal. Both open into the ship canal. To the southeast of the town run the M56 motorway, the Chester–Mancheste ...n soapworks.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Soap and alkali works on the Bridgewater canal, 19th century]]
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• Chester
  ...chester.gov.uk/PDF/Heritage-Trail-Canal.pdf |archivedate=2008-05-29 |title=Canal Towpath Trail |accessdate=16 April 2008 |publisher=Chester City Council }}< ...covered above include cruises on the River Dee and on the Shropshire Union Canal, and guided tours on an open-air bus.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cheste
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• Gibraltar
  ...e of Trafalgar. Its strategic value increased with the opening of the Suez Canal as it controlled the sea route between the British Isles and the British Em
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• Lough Foyle
  * The Broharris Canal was constructed in the 1820s when a cut, some two miles long on the south s ...ocks to working order. Work is due to start on the Lough Foyle side of the canal in the summer of 2006.
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• Strabane
  ===Canal=== ...cks to working order. Work was due to start on the Lough Foyle side of the canal in the summer of 2006 but has not commenced as of yet.
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• Northampton
  ...n's growth was accelerated in the 19th century, first by the [[Grand Union Canal]], which reached the town in 1815 and later the coming of the railways. The
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• St Helena
  ...lanes to a route via the Red Sea (which, prior to the building of the Suez Canal involved a short overland section). These factors contributed to a decline
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• Tristan da Cunha
  ...for operations in the Southern Atlantic. However, the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, together with the gradual move from sailing ships to coal-fired st
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• Pitcairn Islands
  ...lying the [[United Kingdom]] to [[New Zealand]] route by way of the Panama Canal. Trade is restricted by the jagged geography of the island, which lacks a h
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• Llangollen
  ==Llangollen Canal== ...ch of the Shropshire Union Canal, though it is now known as the Llangollen Canal.
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• Derby
  *Derby Canal
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• Ulverston
  ...|title=Ulverston|publisher=Visit Cumbria|accessdate=2007-10-19}}</ref> The canal was once a vital component of the town's economy.<ref>{{cite book|last=Prie File:UlverstonCanal.JPG|Ulverston Canal
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• Walsall
  |picture caption=Canal boats in Walsall
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• Clydebank
  ...d canal.jpg|thumb|200px|The Clyde Shopping Centre with its bridge over the canal]] ...to the [[River Clyde]]. The land was situated close to the Forth and Clyde Canal and to the main road running west out Glasgow, and so was conveniently posi
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