The Chester Canal was an English canal linking the south Cheshire town of Nantwich with the River Dee at Chester. It was intended to link Chester to Middlewich...
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Ellesmere Canal was opened, which ran from Netherpool (now known as Ellesmere Port) to meet the Chester Canal at Chester canal basin. Later, those two canal branches...
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Junction), which itself connects via the Wardle Canal with the Trent and Mersey Canal, and the River Dee (in Chester). With two connections to the Trent and Mersey...
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completed; these were eventually incorporated into the Chester Canal, Montgomery Canal and Shropshire Union Canal. Although several major civil engineering feats...
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section ran from Ellesmere Port on the River Mersey to Chester, where it joined the Chester Canal, and opened in 1795. Work on the southern section began...
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canals was further reduced by agreements made with the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company and with the Anderton Carrying Company. In 1844 the canal made...
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Derby, Chester, Manchester, Blackburn, Bradford, Hartlepool and Newcastle. London to Portsmouth canal: Also known as the Grand Southern Canal, and proposed...
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The Chester Canal Heritage Trust was started in 1997, to promote the canal in Chester, Cheshire, and educate about it. The canal was originally the Chester...
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The Schuylkill Canal, or Schuylkill Navigation, was a system of interconnected canals and slack-water pools along the Schuylkill River in the U.S. state...
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The Bridge of Sighs in Chester is a crossing that originally led from the Northgate gaol, across the Chester Canal, to a chapel in the Bluecoat School...
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Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal was a canal in England which ran from Nantwich, where it joined the Chester Canal, to Autherley, where it joined...
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out of the amalgamation of the Chester Canal with its branch to Middlewich and the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, which ran from Nantwich to Autherley...
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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (category Llangollen Canal)
1844, the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company, which owned the broad canals from Ellesmere Port to Chester and from Chester to Nantwich, with a branch...
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outskirts of Chester, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The Shropshire Union Canal (originally...
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James Brindley (category English canal engineers)
Canal was the first part of this ambitious network, of which the later Chester Canal, started in 1772, was a component. However, although Brindley and his...
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estuary section, onto the Dee Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal (originally the Chester Canal) at certain times of year. United Utilities vacated the turbine...
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Mersey Canal Shropshire Union Canal Macclesfield Canal Ellesmere Canal Llangollen Canal Chester Canal Manchester Ship Canal River Weaver Rochdale Canal Ashton...
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Cheshire (redirect from County of Chester)
Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire East, Borough of Halton and Warrington Councils. The Cheshire canal system includes several canals originally used to...
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Emery, Gordon, ed. (October 2005). The Old Chester Canal. ISBN 1-872265-88-X. Emery, Gordon (2002). Chester Electric Lighting Station. ISBN 1-872265-48-0...
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located in the village, off the A41. The Shropshire Union Canal (originally Chester Canal) runs through the middle of Waverton. The village had two railway...
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Chester city walls consist of a defensive structure built to protect the city of Chester in Cheshire, England. Their construction was started by the Romans...
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a bellman or crier throughout the centuries—at Christmas 1798, the Chester Canal Company sold some sugar damaged in their packet boat and this was to...
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England. The tower stands beside the Shropshire Union Canal and forms part of the disused Chester Leadworks. Built by Walkers, Parker & Co. in 1799, the...
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South Carolina Department of Parks and Tourism Landsford Canal, Chester County The Landsford Canal was the farthest upstream of a series of river boat navigations...
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Cheshire West and Chester is a local government district with borough status in Cheshire, England. It was established on 1 April 2009 as part of the 2009...
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Ellesmere Port (section Canal)
Wirral Peninsula, six miles (ten kilometres) north of Chester, on the bank of the Manchester Ship Canal. The town had a population of 61,090 in the 2011 census...
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Horseshoe Falls (Wales) (category Llangollen Canal)
Ellesmere Canal Company. The canal was a navigable feeder, which supplied water to the Ellesmere Canal beyond Pontcysyllte, and to the Chester Canal, to which...
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Four Counties Ring (category Canal rings in the United Kingdom)
Chester Canal, built in the 1770s, but a series of amalgamations led to it becoming part of the Shropshire Union network in 1846. The Chester Canal was...
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the Ellesmere and Chester offered to buy the canal for £110 per share and the offer was accepted. The Ellesmere and Chester Canal obtained an act of...
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previous experience of working on the Chester Canal and who had worked with Whitworth on the Thames and Severn Canal, was to be the engineer. It appears...
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