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  • ...he bridges and engulfed many of the villages and neighbourhoods all around the town. ...s came to the town in 1977, when the Queen presented the letters patent to the Mayor in person.
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  • [[File:Clougha heather.jpg|thumb|300px|The Forest of Bowland, Yorkshire]] [[File:Pennines edited-1.jpg|thumb|180px|The Pennine Mountains]]
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  • This is a '''list of crossings of the [[River Severn]]''', including bridges, tunnels, ferries and fords, in order from source to mouth. ...lowest bridge is the Second Severn Crossing, opened thirty years later by the Prince of Wales.
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  • ...20 miles east of [[Norwich]] and 100 miles north-west of the Dutch coast. The town has a popular beach and two piers. ...port services. A wind farm of 30 generators is within sight of the town on the Scroby Sands.
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  • |name=Newark-on-Trent |picture=Newark on Trent UK Market Square.jpg
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  • [[File:River_Devon_-_geograph.org.uk_-_412747.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The River Devon looking downstream from Hawton Bridge]] ...rent]]. It rises in [[Leicestershire]] and joins the Trent at [[Newark-on-Trent|Newark]] in [[Nottinghamshire]].
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  • [[File:Grand Union Canal at Braunston.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The canal at Braunston, Northamptonshire]] ...and Union Canal - geograph.org.uk - 1397385.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Boats on the canal at Croxley Green]]
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  • ...ver in Stratford - geograph.org.uk - 792119.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Bow Back River in Stratford]] [[File:Three Mills Lock.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The sluices at Three Mills Lock]]
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  • ...The River Witham, Lincoln - geograph.org.uk - 690359.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Witham in Lincoln]] ...tham properties - geograph.org.uk - 304094.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Houses by the Witham]]
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  • [[File:Blonk Street Bridge.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Don and the Block Street Bridge, Sheffield]] ...f the fine Yorkshire countryside, and in its lower stretches an industrial river; one that has supplied power and water to industry and been punished and po
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  • ...e mines were opened in earnest only in the 1960s and closed in the 1990s. The village has refused to decline like its neighbours and has built itself ane ...aints) is a small supermarket and adjacent to that is Grannie's Tea Rooms. The leisure centre has a large swimming pool, gymnasium and sports hall with pl
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  • [[File:Worsley packet house closeup large image.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The packet house at Worsley]] The '''Bridgewater Canal''' runs through southern [[Lancashire]] and northern [
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  • [[File:Navigationbridgebarrow.JPG|right|thumb|350px|Bridge over the Soar by Barrow upon Soar]] [[File:River Soar in Leicester.jpg|right|thumb|250px|A canalised section of the Soar in Leicester]]
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  • |picture caption=Trent Bridge and Nottingham from West Bridgford ...a continuous urban area with Nottingham, effectively making it a suburb of the city.
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  • |picture caption=Houses in the west of Jackfield ...' is a village in [[Shropshire]], on the south bank of [[River Severn]] in the [[Ironbridge Gorge]], downstream from [[Ironbridge]].
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  • ...y Canal, 1987 - geograph.org.uk - 1652530.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The end of the No. 2 Line near Hawne Basin]] ...waterways across the country. The Dudley Canal in particular forms part of the popular [[Stourport Ring]] narrowboat cruising route.
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  • The '''Coventry Canal''' is a navigable narrow canal in the [[Midlands]], passing through [[Staffordshire]] and [[Warwickshire]] ([http ...t also has connections with the [[Oxford Canal]], the [[Ashby Canal]], and the [[Birmingham and Fazeley Canal]].
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  • ...Canal from Cuckoo Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 1132701.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal from Cuckoo Bridge]] ...al]] and Birmingham and thereby connect Birmingham to [[London]] by way of the [[Oxford Canal]].<ref>{{harvnb |Rolt |1985}}</ref>
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  • ...Grade I-listed<ref name="blbgthaywood"/> packhorse bridge over the [[River Trent]] near [[Great Haywood]], [[Staffordshire]]. ...p|129}} and has been described as "perhaps the least altered old bridge in the county"<ref name="blbgthaywood">{{cite web |url=http://www.britishlistedbui
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  • ...ith [[Lincolnshire]]. The village is situated approximately seven miles to the east of [[Goole]] town centre. ...ues southwards, to [[Fockerby]] and [[Garthorpe, Lincolnshire|Garthorpe]]. The county border between [[Yorkshire]] and [[Lincolnshire]] forms its eastern
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  • [[File:Chesterfield Canal - panoramio - PJMarriott (7).jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Chesterfield Canal at Shireoaks]] ...rfield. Tapton Lock Visitor Centre is located on the Chesterfield Canal to the north of [[Tapton House|Tapton Park]].<ref>[http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/le
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  • ...ield Canal''' is a canal in east [[Cheshire]], one of the six that make up the [[Cheshire Ring]]. ...canal runs 26 miles from [[Marple Junction]] at [[Marple]], where it joins the Upper [[Peak Forest Canal]], 16 miles, southwards (through [[Bollington]] a
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  • [[File:Trent mersey canal near branston water park.jpg|thumb|300px|The Trent and Mersey Canal near Branston Water Park]] [[File:TandMMacclesfield.jpg|thumb|300px|Hall Green Branch crosses the T&M at Poole Aqueduct]]
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  • ...Canal, at Raymond Street, near the junction with the Chester Canal and the River Dee]] ...the [[River Mersey]] at [[Ellesmere Port]] from 1797, and the fortunes of the Chester Canal began to improve.
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  • [[File:Leek Tunnel.JPG|thumb|300px|The southern portal of Leek Tunnel]] ...y Canal]] at the summit level, to [[Froghall]]. The canal has 17 locks and the 75-yard Froghall Tunnel.<ref name="Waterscape" >{{cite web|url=http://www.w
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  • '''Great Haywood''' is a village in central [[Staffordshire]], just off the A51 road and about four miles north-west of [[Rugeley]]. ...the most attractive on the network.<ref>{{cite book|title=Four Counties & the Welsh Canals|location=London|publisher=Nicholson|year=2006|series=Collins N
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  • ...Birmingham and Fazeley Canal under the Watling Street Bridge at Fazeley on the right]] ...l House.jpg|right|thumb|Fazeley Junction toll house and roving bridge over the [[Coventry Canal]]]]
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  • ...n of the Calder and Hebble Navigation, from a point near the junction with the Rochdale Canal]] The '''Calder and Hebble Navigation''' is a Broad (i.e. with 14-foot-wide locks
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  • ...nAqueductGates.jpg|thumb|300px|Guillotine gates protect the canal from the River Don]] ...Calder Navigation (Knottingley Canal). It is completely straight, and was the last canal built in England for commercial purposes.
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  • ...and Tinsley Canal - geograph.org.uk - 610242.jpg|thumb|300px|A section of the lock flight up to Sheffield]] ...is a system of navigable inland waterways (canals and canalised rivers) in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire|West Riding]] of [[Yorkshire]] and parts of [[Li
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  • ...barges and to improve the port facilities at Keadby, but the completion of the [[New Junction Canal]] in 1905 made this unnecessary, as Goole could easily ...that it might get stuck in the lock, resulting in flooding and draining of the canal.
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  • ...nt]]. The civil parish is called Keadby with Althorpe with a population at the 2011 census of 1,930.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistic ...h Yorkshire, fire-damaged in 2011 although there are plans to rebuild; and the Mariners Arms, closed in 1991 and subsequently used as a private school.
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  • ...ght of locks to Salford Junction is to the left, and the Digbeth Branch to the right]] ...d Fazeley Canal]] in [[Birmingham]] 6, [[Warwickshire]]. It is named after the area of [[Aston, Warwickshire|Aston]] in which it is located.
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  • ...6.jpg|thumb|300px|The second bridge carries the BCN Main Line towpath over the Wyrley and Essington Canal]] ...ts the [[BCN Main Line]], at [[Horseley Fields]] in [[Staffordshire]], to the east of [[Wolverhampton]].
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  • [[File:Weaver Nantwich.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The River Weaver at Nantwich]] ...hire]], and which discharges its waters into the tidal [[River Mersey]] at the county's northern bounds.
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  • [[File:Gradnwesterncanaltiverton.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Grand Western Canal's terminus at Tiverton]] ..."Chapter IX: The Schemes to Join the English and Bristol Channels". In: ''The Canals of Southern England''. London: Phoenix House Ltd.</ref>
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  • ...iam Oram.jpg|thumb|Engraving of 1750 showing the first Datchet Bridge from the Buckinghamshire bank]] ...ferry service which had operated at the site since at least the middle of the 13th century.
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  • ...coln]], on the eastern bank of the tidal [[River Trent]], which here forms the county border. ...amp, the late-mediƦval [[Torksey Castle]] and a Victorian railway bridge, the ''Torksey Viaduct''.
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  • [[FiLe:River Cole, Coleshill - geograph.org.uk - 159500.jpg|thumb|300px|The river in Coleshill]] ...ok - River cole.jpg|thumb|Wooden bridge over the Cole at Shirley, drawn in the 19th century by Samuel Rostill Lines.]]
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  • ...[[River Trent]] which passes close to the south. Just across the Trent is the parish of [[Castle Donington]]. ...e-II listed buildings and a large number of surviving public houses within the designated Shardlow Wharf Conservation Area.<ref name=SHLHist/><ref name=De
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  • |picture=Cavendish Bridge over the River Trent.jpg ...se stones were removed when the old bridge was demolished and now stand by the old road, near Shardlow.]]
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  • ...|thumb|300px|The Grade-I-listed Blyth New Bridge carries the A634 over the river]] ...meanders northwards to join the River Idle near the town of [[Bawtry]] on the Yorkshire-Nottinghamshire border.
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  • |picture caption= Wilford Toll Bridge<br />with the statue of Sir Robert Juckes Clifton |crosses=[[River Trent]]
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  • [[File:Shacklecross Lock in Borrowash, Derbyshire.JPG|thumb|250px|The Shacklecross Lock (Borrowash Bottom Lock) undergoing restoration in 2006]] ...ed the Derby Arm being proposed, as a way of transferring boats across the river.
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  • |crosses=River Trent ...stone Bridge''' is a mediƦval bridge crossing the [[River Trent]] between the villages of [[Swarkestone]] and [[Stanton by Bridge]], about six miles sout
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  • [[File:Grantham Canal not in water.JPG|thumb|250px|A dry lock on the canal near Cropwell Bishop]] ...]] where it joins the [[River Trent]]. It was built primarily to allow for the transportation of coal to Grantham. It opened in 1797, and its profitabilit
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  • [[File:Nottingham Canal, Awsworth.JPG|thumb|250px|Part of the Nottingham Canal is maintained for Fishing. Pictured in 2006.]] ...e Great Northern Basin, which provided access to the [[Erewash Canal]] and the [[Cromford Canal]].
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  • ...tation via [[Leicester]], [[Derby]]/[[Nottingham]] and [[Chesterfield]] in the eastern [[Midlands]]. ...ctrified section between St Pancras and Bedford forms the northern half of the Thameslink cross-London service, with a fast service to [[Brighton]] and ot
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  • ...nd Mersey Canal]]. Nearby places include [[Aston-on-Trent]], [[Barrow upon Trent]], [[Castle Donington]] and [[Swarkestone]]. ...are near the river Trent.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ekwall|first1=Eilert|title=The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names|date=1960|publisher=Claren
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  • ...arndon 1973.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Photograph of Farndon taken in 1973 from the north end of Marsh Lane looking west showing Staythorpe power station]] ...ilt in Elizabethan times, and thought to be the third such church built on the same site since Saxon times.
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  • .... The population of the civil parish of Clarborough and Welham as taken at the 2011 Census was 1,088.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statisti ...tre of Retford and with its parish boundary actually towards the centre of the town, Clarborough became an important local source of products.
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  • [[File:RiverDonAldwarkeLock.jpg|250px|thumb|The Aldwarke Eurobarge Lock, complete with traffic lights]] ...ents to the lower river. Locks and lock cuts were built, and, by 1751, the river was navigable to [[Tinsley, Sheffield|Tinsley]].
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  • |picture caption=Harrington Bridge from the Leicestershire bank |crosses=River Trent
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  • ...illage in [[Nottinghamshire]], fifteen miles north-east of [[Nottingham]]. The 2011 census recorded a population of 804. ...st Office until early 2015. Bleasby railway station is at the west edge of the village.
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  • ...ast of the River Trent and lying about six miles south-west of [[Newark-on-Trent]]. ...the civil parish (including [[Thorpe, Nottinghamshire|Thorpe]] as taken in the 2011 Census was 152.
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  • |crosses=River Trent '''Gunthorpe Bridge''' is a bridge over the [[River Trent]] at [[Gunthorpe, Nottinghamshire|Gunthorpe]] in [[Nottinghamshire]].
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