The Exeter Ship Canal, also known as the Exeter Canal is a canal leading from (and beside) the River Exe to Exeter Quay in the city of Exeter, Devon,...
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canalised for boat traffic. The Exeter Ship Canal was completed in 1567. The Sankey Canal was the first British canal of the Industrial Revolution, opening...
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Exeter Quay, also known as Exeter Quayside, is a part of the city of Exeter next to the River Exe and the Exeter Ship Canal. It was first used as a port...
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Countess Wear (category Areas of Exeter)
was owned by the Earls. The bridges over the river and the adjacent Exeter Ship Canal were for many years a traffic bottleneck, until the completion of...
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Alicante but stopping the Naples and Luqa flights. The Exeter Canal, also known as the Exeter Ship Canal, was first constructed by John Trew in about 1566...
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Exminster is a village west of the Exeter ship canal and River Exe in Devon, England, 6 km (3.7 mi) south of Exeter, with a population of 4,379 at the...
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14 September 2013. Exeter history by www.exeter.gov.uk, .pdf file Exeter Ship Canal, The First Four Hundred Years Archived 19 September 2015 at the Wayback...
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House Cathedral Close Custom House Exeter Guildhall Exeter Quayside Exeter Ship Canal Exeter War Memorial HM Prison Exeter Met Office Northernhay Gardens...
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the ship spent most of 1941 on convoy escort duties before she was transferred to the Far East after the start of the Pacific War in December. Exeter was...
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City of Exeter, who feared it would compete with the Exeter Canal for transportation of coal, was eventually softened; and the Grand Western Canal Act 1796...
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Nuoli-class gunboat (category Ships of the Finnish Navy)
Engineering Ltd, berthed on the Exeter Ship Canal, UK. A team travelled to Finland to prepare Nuolli 11 for her journey to Exeter. "This involved stripping...
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Prior to the construction of the canal, there had been several plans over the previous 50 years to build a ship canal from the Bristol Channel to the English...
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soon afterwards started the demise of the canal. The canal was rescued from bankruptcy by the Bristol and Exeter Railway in 1866. Despite commercial traffic...
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Avocet Line (redirect from Exeter and Exmouth Railway Act 1846)
from Exeter, also shared in growth. The Exeter Ship Canal had been built in the sixteenth century to alleviate this problem, but use of the canal was inconvenient...
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The following list of canals in the United Kingdom, includes some systems that are navigable rivers with sections of canal (e.g. Aire and Calder Navigation)...
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just outside Exeter, in the south-west of England, where two bridges similar to their objectives were found over the Exeter Ship Canal.[citation needed]...
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at Exeter Quay, particularly of the woollen cloth industry. Though the quay had existed since Roman times, the construction of the Exeter Ship Canal in...
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Riverside Valley Park. Between the River Exe and Exeter Ship Canal, one mile downriver from Exeter Quay, lying between Clapperbrook Lane in the north-west...
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Weir was proposed, but there were fears that this would affect the Exeter Ship Canal and the plans were shelved. Instead the coal-fired power station was...
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puddling to fracture meant that it was sold to the Bristol and Exeter Railway. They used the canal to transport materials for the construction of the new Somerset...
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disbanded. 1556 – Society of Merchant Adventurers incorporated. 1564 – Exeter Ship Canal construction begins. 1593 – Guildhall rebuilt. 1595 – Michael Harte...
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Port of Bridgwater (section Canal and docks)
the early 1850s. In 1866 the Bristol and Exeter Railway stepped in and bought the entire stock of the canal company. The main attraction was the dock...
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SS America (1939) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
the movement of ships and military defense preparations at the Panama Canal, observed and reported defense preparations in the Canal Zone, and met with...
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The Bristol and Exeter Railway (B&ER) was an English railway company formed to connect Bristol and Exeter. It was built on the broad gauge and its engineer...
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James Green (engineer) (category English canal engineers)
enlarging the Exeter Ship Canal, a project which started in 1820 and lasted for seven years. James Green brought his own individual style to canal building...
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of Westminster in London, England USNS Adelphi, a U.S. Navy ship Adelphi Canal, former canal in Derbyshire, England All pages with titles beginning with...
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HMS Ajax (22) (category Naval ships of Operation Neptune)
Nassau at the time, was ordered to Trinidad. Exeter, which was about to depart Bermuda for the Panama Canal, was also ordered to Trinidad on the 21st. Ajax...
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Avon Canal is a waterway in southern England with an overall length of 87 miles (140 km), made up of two lengths of navigable river linked by a canal. The...
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Exeter St Davids railway station is the principal and largest railway station in Exeter, also the second-busiest station in Devon. It is 193 miles 72 chains...
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The Stover Canal is a canal located in Devon, England. It was opened in 1792 and served the ball clay industry until it closed in the early 1940s. Today...
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