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  • ...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. ...Liverpool to Manchester; the A56 from [[Ramsbottom]] to [[Padiham]] via [[Haslingden]] and from Colne to Skipton; the A585 from [[Kirkham, Lancashire|Kirkham]]
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  • ...ashire|Whitefield]] to the south. The disused [[Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal]] bisects the town. ...iffe was an important mill town with cotton mills, bleachworks and a road, canal and railway network.<ref name=McNeil>{{Harvnb|McNeil|Nevell|2000|pp=24–25
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  • [[File:Mbb canal steam crane sion.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Steam crane at Mount Sion, on the Bu ...nal was level and required no locks. Six aqueducts were built to allow the canal to cross the rivers Irwell and [[River Tonge|Tonge]] and several minor road
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  • ...ww.penninewaterways.co.uk/ll/ll59.htm | title=Hapton - Leeds and Liverpool Canal - A Virtual Trip 59 | accessdate=9 May 2008 | publisher=Pennine Waterways } ...iham]] over the moor to [[Haslingden]]. Although the [[Leeds and Liverpool Canal]] opened to Burnley in 1801, the stretch from Hapton to Blackburn was not c
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