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x Bridgewater Canal Bridgewater Canal at Stockton Heath 1760 1761
The Bridgewater Canal is a canal in North West England that connects Runcorn, Manchester, and Leigh. It was commissioned by Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, to transport coal from his mines in Worsley to Manchester. It was opened in 1761...
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x Stourport-on-Severn Canal         Body Of Water
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x Manchester & Salford Junction Canal         Body Of Water
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x Manchester Ship Canal Boat on manchester ship canal    
The Manchester Ship Canal is a 36-mile (58 km) long river navigation in North West England. Designed to give the city of Manchester direct access to the sea, it was built between 1887 and 1894 at a cost of about £15 million (£1.22 billion as of 2009...
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x Millennium Ribble Link         Body Of Water
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x Rochdale Canal A Lock on the Rochdale Canal with water flowing over the gate due to the lack of a side channel    
The Rochdale Canal is a navigable "broad" canal in northern England, part of the connected system of the canals of Great Britain. The "Rochdale" in its name refers to the town of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, through which the canal passes. The...
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x Grand Union Canal Grand Union Canal at Braunston    
The Grand Union Canal in England is part of the British canal system. Its main line connects London and Birmingham, stretching for 220 km (137 miles) with 166 locks. It has arms to places including Leicester, Slough, Aylesbury, Wendover and...
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x Aire and Calder Navigation One of the 600 tonne barges used on the Navigation.    
The Aire and Calder Navigation is a river and canal system of the River Aire and the River Calder in the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, England. In 1699 an Act of Parliament was passed to improve the navigability of the River Aire (from the...
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x Union Canal The Avon Aqueduct 1818 1822
The Union Canal is a 31.5 mile (50.7 km) contour canal in Scotland, from Lochrin Basin, Fountainbridge, Edinburgh to Falkirk, where it meets the Forth and Clyde Canal. The Union Canal is a contour canal, following a 73 metre (240ft) contour...
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x Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal    
The Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal is a disused canal in Greater Manchester, England, built to link Bolton and Bury with Manchester. The canal, when fully opened, was 15 miles 1 furlong (24.3 km) long. It was accessed via a junction with the River...
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x Llangollen Canal {{{alt}}}    
The Llangollen Canal is a canal in England and Wales. What is today known as the Llangollen Canal was originally the centre section of the Ellesmere Canal, and later became part of the Shropshire Union Canal network. Only with the increasing...
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x Kennet and Avon Canal The canal at Bathampton, near Bath 1799 1810
The Kennet and Avon Canal is a canal in southern England. The name may refer to either the route of the original Kennet and Avon Canal Company, which linked the River Kennet at Newbury to the River Avon at Bath, or to the entire navigation between...
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x Lichfield Canal Lichfield Canal Aqueduct M6 Toll    
The Lichfield Canal, as it is now known, was historically a part of the Wyrley and Essington Canal, being the section of that canal from Ogley Junction at Brownhills on the northern Birmingham Canal Navigations to Huddlesford Junction, east of...
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x Peak Forest Canal The Gauging Stop Place and Wharfinger's house at Bugsworth Basin    
The Peak Forest Canal, is a narrow (7 feet (2.13 m) gauge) locked artificial waterway in northern England. It is 14.8 miles (23.8 km) long and forms part of the connected English/Welsh inland waterway network. The canal consists of two level pounds,...
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x Cromford Canal The Pinxton arm taken from where it joins the main canal    
The Cromford Canal ran 14.5 miles (23 km) from Cromford to the Erewash Canal in Derbyshire, England with a branch to Pinxton. Built by William Jessop with the assistance of Benjamin Outram, its alignment included four tunnels and 14 locks. From...
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x Birmingham Canal Navigations Gas Street Basin towards Brindleyplace    
Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) is a network of navigable canals connecting Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and the eastern part of the Black Country. The BCN is connected to the rest of the English canal system at several junctions. At its working...
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x Chesterfield Canal A section of the canal undergoing restoration   1777
The Chesterfield Canal is in the north of England. It was opened in 1777 and ran 46 miles (74 km) from the River Trent at West Stockwith, Nottinghamshire to Chesterfield, Derbyshire. It is currently only navigable as far as Kiveton Park near...
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x Basingstoke Canal Woking-BasingstokeCanal    
The Basingstoke Canal is a British Canal, built to connect Basingstoke with the River Thames at Weybridge via the Wey Navigation. From Basingstoke, the canal passes through or near Odiham, Fleet, Aldershot, Mytchett, Brookwood, and Woking. Its...
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x Trent and Mersey Canal Bagnall Lock, Lock 13 beside Bridge 49 at Alrewas   1777
The Trent and Mersey Canal is a 93.5 miles (150 km) long canal in the East Midlands, West Midlands, and North West of England. It is mostly a "narrow canal" (locks and bridges big enough for a narrowboat 72 feet long x 7 feet wide) but east of...
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x Thames and Severn Canal Brimscombe bridge 1783  
The Thames and Severn Canal is a (former) canal in Gloucestershire in the south of England, completed in 1789. Its eastern end is Inglesham Lock near Lechlade where it connects with the River Thames. Its western end is Wallbridge near Stroud, where...
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x Huddersfield Narrow Canal Huddersfield Narrow Canal from Aspley along rear of University    
The Huddersfield Narrow Canal is an inland waterway in northern England. It runs just under 20 miles (32 km) from Lock 1E at the rear of the University of Huddersfield campus, near Aspley Basin at Huddersfield to the junction with the Ashton Canal...
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x Ashton Canal The Ashton Canal at Droylsden    
The Ashton Canal is a canal built in Greater Manchester in North West England. The Ashton leaves the Rochdale Canal at Ducie St. Junction in central Manchester, and climbs for six miles (10 km) and 18 locks, passing through Ancoats, Holt Town,...
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x Huddersfield Broad Canal Huddersfield Broad Canal RLH    
The Huddersfield Broad Canal (also called by its original name, the Sir John Ramsden Canal) is a wide-locked navigable canal in Yorkshire in northern England. The waterway is 3¾ miles (6km) long and has 9 wide locks. It follows the valley of the...
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x Panama Canal The two ships seen here seem almost to be touching the walls of the Miraflores Locks    
The Panama Canal is a ship canal which joins the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific ocean. One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, it had an enormous impact on shipping between the two oceans, replacing the long and...
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x Suez Canal SuezCanal ElBallah    
The Suez Canal is a man-made sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Opened in November 1869, it allows water transportation between Europe and Asia without navigating around Africa. The northern terminus is...
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x Erie Canal Erie Canal Map 1853 1817 1825
The Erie Canal is an artificial waterway in New York that runs about 363 miles from Albany on the Hudson River to Buffalo at Lake Erie, completing a navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. First proposed in 1808, it was...
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x Grand Canal of Venice The Grand Canal in Venice, Italy    
The Grand Canal (Italian: Canal Grande, Venetian: Canałasso) is a canal in Venice, Italy. It forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city. Public transport is provided by water buses and private water taxis, but many tourists visit it...
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x Welland Canal Welland canal and skyway    
The Welland Canal is a ship canal in Canada, that runs 42 km (27.0 miles) from Port Colborne, Ontario on Lake Erie to Port Weller, Ontario on Lake Ontario. As part of the St. Lawrence Seaway, the canal allows ships to avoid Niagara Falls by...
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x Grand Canal of China Kaiserkanal01    
The Grand Canal of China (simplified Chinese: 大运河; traditional Chinese: 大運河; pinyin: Dà Yùnhé), also known as the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (simplified Chinese: 京杭大运河; traditional Chinese: 京杭大運河; pinyin: Jīng Háng Dà Yùnhé) is the longest ancient...
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x Grand Canal of Ireland Grand Canal Dublin 2006 Kaihsu Tai    
The Grand Canal (Irish: An Chanáil Mhór) is the southernmost of a pair of canals that connect Dublin, in the east of the country, with the River Shannon in the west, the two canals nearly encircling Dublin's inner city. Its sister canal on the...
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x Rideau Canal Locks in summer.   1832
The Rideau Canal (French: Canal Rideau), also known as the Rideau Waterway, connects the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on the Ottawa River to the city of Kingston, Ontario on Lake Ontario. The canal was opened in 1832 as a precaution in case of...
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x Industrial Canal /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000004d4894c    
The Industrial Canal is a 5.5 mile (9 km) waterway in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The waterway's proper name, as used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and on NOAA nautical charts, is Inner Harbor Navigation Canal (IHNC). The more...
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x Oxford Canal The Oxford Canal as seen from Napton-on-the-Hill in Warwickshire    
The Oxford Canal is a 78 miles (126 km) long narrow canal in central England linking Oxford with Coventry via Banbury and Rugby. It connects with the River Thames at Oxford, to the Grand Union Canal at the villages of Braunston and Napton-on-the...
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x Coventry Canal Coventry canal nr Fradley    
The Coventry Canal is a navigable narrow canal in the Midlands of England. It starts in Coventry and ends 38 miles (65 km) north at Fradley Junction, just north of Lichfield, where it joins the Trent and Mersey Canal. It also has connections with...
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x Ashby Canal         Body Of Water
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x Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Part of the Farmers Bridge flight looking towards the BT tower 1784  
The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal is a canal of the Birmingham Canal Navigations in the West Midlands of England. Its purpose was to provide a link between Birmingham and the south east of England, by way of the Coventry Canal and the Oxford Canal....
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x Regent's Canal Hampstead Road Lock at Camden in Winter   Aug 1, 1820
The Regent's Canal is a canal across an area just to the north of central London, England. It provides a link from the Paddington arm of the Grand Union Canal, just north-west of Paddington Basin, in the west, to the Limehouse Basin and the River...
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x Leeds and Liverpool Canal Leeds and Liverpool Canal near Granary Wharf in Leeds    
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a canal in northern England, linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool. Over a distance of 127 miles (204 km), it crosses the Pennines, and includes 91 locks on the main line. It has several small branches, and in...
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x Montgomery Canal Montgomery Canal milepost    
The Montgomery Canal (or Montgomeryshire Canal), known colloquially as "The Monty", is a partially restored canal in Powys, in eastern Wales, and in northwest Shropshire, in western England. Originally planned to run from Llanymynech to Newtown via...
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x Corinth Canal Corinth Canal 2 1881 1893
The Corinth Canal (Greek: Διώρυγα της Κορίνθου) is a canal that connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Peloponnesian peninsula from the Greek mainland,...
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x Royal Canal of Ireland Picture of the Royal Canal near Mullingar taken in October 2004 1790 1817
The Royal Canal (Irish: An Chanáil Ríoga) is a canal originally built for freight and passenger transportation from the River Liffey at Dublin to the River Shannon at Cloondara in County Longford in Ireland. It fell into disrepair, but since has...
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x Ellesmere Canal Camlas ellesmere 1791 1796
The Ellesmere Canal was a canal in England and Wales, originally planned to link the Rivers Mersey, Dee, and Severn, by running from Netherpool (now known as Ellesmere Port) to Shrewsbury. The canal that was eventually constructed was very different...
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x Shropshire Union Canal Shropshire Union Canal near Norbury Junction    
The Shropshire Union Canal is a navigable canal in England; the Llangollen and Montgomery canals are the modern names of branches of the SU system and lie partially in Wales. The canal lies in West Midlands, Staffordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire in...
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x Shrewsbury Canal {{{alt}}}   1793
The Shrewsbury Canal (or Shrewsbury and Newport Canal) was a canal in Shropshire, England. Authorised in 1793, the main line from Trench to Shrewsbury was fully open by 1797, but it remained isolated from the rest of the canal network until 1835,...
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x Crinan Canal Lock House on Crinan Canal 1794 1801
The Crinan canal is a canal in the west of Scotland. It takes its name from the village of Crinan which is located at its westerly end. Nine miles long, it connects the village of Ardrishaig on Loch Gilp with the Sound of Jura, providing a navigable...
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x Göta Canal Map showing Göta kanal between lake Vättern and the Baltic Sea Apr 11, 1810 Sep 26, 1832
The Göta Canal (Swedish: Göta kanal) is a Swedish canal constructed in the early 19th century. It formed the backbone of a waterway stretching some 382 miles (614 km), linking a number of lakes and rivers to provide a route from Gothenburg (Swedish...
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x Tavistock Canal Tavistock Canal 1 1803 1817
The Tavistock Canal is a canal in the county of Devon in England. It was constructed early in the 19th century to link the town of Tavistock to Morwellham Quay on the River Tamar, where cargo could be loaded into ships. The canal is still in use to...
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x Caermarthenshire Canal     1756   Body Of Water
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