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	The ASHBY CANAL Leicestershire
		The railway mania of the 1830’s and 40’s did little for its fortunes and in 1846 the canal was sold to the Midland Railway for £110,000, a considerable loss against construction costs of £184,000.
		Existing in close proximity to active coal mines meant the Ashby Canal was constantly affected by mining subsidence.
		An imaginative proposal is to route the canal past the old Measham Station, which is similar to the one at Shackerstone.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/ChrisSimmons/ashbycan.htm (399 words)

	Canal
		Birmingham and Fazeley Canal The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal is a Tamworth.
		Scheldt-Rhine Canal The Scheldt-Rhine Canal (Schelde-Rijn Kanaal) in the Rhine.
		Trent and Mersey Canal The Trent and Mersey Canal is a 1777.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/canal.html (2221 words)

	Ashby Canal
		The canal opened in 1804 to transport Coal from the west-Leicestershire coalfields.
		In 1846 the canal was taken over by the Midland Railway company who payed just £110,000 for the canal, which was a considerable loss for the owners, who had paid £184,000 to costruct the canal.
		In 1918 a major breach caused by mining subsidence caused the last few miles of the canal near Ashby to be abandoned, the canal was nearly closed completely, only the strategic importance of the coal supplies during the First World War allowed it to survive.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/as/Ashby_Canal.html (281 words)

	Coventry Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Coventry Canal is a narrow Canal in England which travels for 38 miles (65 km) between Coventry and Fradley Junction,just north of Lichfield, where it joins the Trent and Mersey Canal.
		The Coventry Canal Company was formed in 1768 and James Brindley was commissioned to build it; work started on the canal in the December of that year.
		The canal was for many years an important artery of trade, and was nationalised in 1948, and taken over by British Waterways.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coventry_Canal (318 words)

	Reed Hotel Boats
		This is not a canal for the active as it has no locks and only one short tunnel, come if you want to unwind and see the countryside at the slow pace of the canals.
		This canal was originally intended as a through route from the River Trent at Burton to the Coventry canal near Bedworth.
		In 1845 the Midland railway bought the canal to switch the coal traffic to their railways, but action by the Oxford and Coventry canal succeeded in blocking this and coal traffic continued along the canal into the 20th century.
	www.reedboats.co.uk /routes/canals/ash.html (571 words)

	Ashby-De-La-Zouch Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The canal line to Moira was also opened during this year while to the south the main line of the canal was well on its way to completion.
		The owners of the Coventry Canal and the nearby Oxford Canal feared that they would find it impossible to cope with the loss of tolls generated by boats using their waterways to reach the Ashby Canal.
		The canal continues to meander (though much more gently now) as it passes to the west of Market Bosworth and a railway line which is now a tourist railway called The Battlefield Line.
	www.canals.btinternet.co.uk /canals/ashbyzouch.htm (5509 words)

	Aberdare Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A proposed canal from the Aire at Knottingley to the dutch river at Newbridge, with a branch from Norton to the Don at Doncaster.
		The Bill for the canal was lost in the Commons in April 1819 witout a division due to the influnce of the Aire and Calder Company.
		A proposal for a canal to run along the east side of the town of Lochmaben, near Dumfries, past lime quarries at Kelhead and to enter the River Annan where "the tide rises to a considerable height at the Old Mill harbour".
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Aberdare-Canal.html (1584 words)

	Articles - Canals of the United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Canals first saw use during the Roman occupation of Great Britain, and were used mainly for irrigation.
		Canal boats proved more than adequate for this task, and so canals were constructed between industries, and between cities and ports, with vast amounts of materials from manufactured goods to coal and lumber being transported.
		However, in the latter half of the 20th century the canals saw a rise in popularity through their use by holidaymakers, who often rented a 'narrowboat' and roamed the canals visiting places they passed through.
	www.foreverd.com /articles/Canals_of_the_United_Kingdom (697 words)

	Turner Ashby (1828-1862)
		At Harpers Ferry, Ashby was assigned to the command of Colonel Jackson and was responsible for guarding fords across the Potomac River and bridges from Harpers Ferry to Point of Rocks, Maryland.
		Ashby's vigorous reconnaissance and screening were strong factors in the success of Jackson's legendary campaign in the Shenandoah Valley in 1862.
		Ashby was buried at the University of Virginia Cemetery, but in October, 1866, his body was reinterred at the Stonewall Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/ashby.html (1027 words)

	Coventry Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Unfortunately the Coventry Canal was still in no financial state to continue their line so the two canals were left unfinished, both only half built, connecting to nothing in particular - other than each other.
		This was the Ashby Canal which had originally been planned to reach the Trent and Mersey Canal at Burton though in the end it got nowhere near.
		The canal was helped further when the Oxford company had their canal upgraded, cutting 14 miles off their round-the-hills route by use of high embankments and deep cuttings.
	www.canals.btinternet.co.uk /canals/coventrycanal.htm (3035 words)

	Ashby Canal
		The Ashby Canal was completed in 1804 and ran north of Moira, North West Leicestershire to Marston on the Coventry Canal.
		The Ashby Canal restoration has continued north from the Moira Furnace, and the canal now terminates at the Bath Yard Basin, immediately outside Conkers Waterside, passing through a new lock on its way from the Furnace.
		The canal was officially opened by the Chairman of Leicestershire County Council in November 2001.
	www.visitconkers.com /about/ashby.html (217 words)

	Canals
		The Lancaster Canal was built early on in the canal revolution but with a break between the northern section from Preston up to beyond Lancaster and the southern section from Wigan to near Chorley.
		The locks between Liverpool and Wigan are longer at 72 feet, as are the 2 on the branch to Leigh, where the junction with the Bridgewater Canal allows boats to reach the narrow canals of central and southern England.
		Although the canal is fairly short it goes through some enchanting countryside in the very Heart of England, cutting through the Forest of Arden with its ancient oaks, and falling gently across quiet rolling countryside and watermeadows to the Avon and Stratford.
	www.fatbadgers.co.uk /Britain/Canals.htm (4847 words)

	Leicestershire County Council Press Release
		The Ashby Canal transported coal and other goods for many years but by the mid 20th Century, the northern reaches had become the victim of mining subsidence and the 8 mile stretch north of Snarestone was abandoned by 1966.
		In 1794, the original Ashby Canal promoters were granted a Private Act Of Parliament to build the Ashby de la Zouch Canal from Bedworth to Moira.
		It provides Leicestershire County Council with the appropriate authority to restore the Ashby Canal from Snarestone to Measham including outline planning permission, powers to acquire the land and to build the canal, introduce bylaws and manage the canal as a navigation.
	www.leics.gov.uk /pressrelease.htm?id=65241 (573 words)

	Cruising the Canal du Midi
		Ashby is a regional manager for Crown Blue Line, a British company that offers self-guided boating tours along the various canals of France, as well as Holland, Ireland and the U.S., starting at $1300 per week.
		I was assured by Ashby, however, that if I could drive a car, I could manage a canal boat, with a little bit of help, and maybe even make it as far as the medieval city of Carcassonne, 50 miles inland.
		Today, the Canal du Midi is primarily the domain of pleasure boaters as well as some enviable souls living on converted barges who've perfected the art of hanging out and enjoying themselves.
	savvytraveler.publicradio.org /show/features/1999/19990724/midi.shtml (1211 words)

	Waterways Renaisasance Awards 2002-03
		Mining subsidence has been a problem throughout the life of the canal and contributed to the closure of the last eight miles by 1966.
		In 1992 The Ashby Woulds Regeneration Forum was founded, with the aim of uniting the area’s local authorities, former mining villages and businesses to look at regeneration options.
		The sustainability of the restored length of canal has been assured with the formation of the Ashby Canal Trust, comprising members of the groups that contributed to the restoration.
	www.bura.org.uk /awards/award2002/wat2002_award_tourism.htm (552 words)

	ashby boat company, canal boat holidays, cruising england inland waterways in a hire narrowboat
		The Ashby Canal is a tranquil 22 mile, lock free canal, ideal for first timers or people looking for a relaxing week, not requiring the "workout" that opening and shutting locks can provide.
		The Moira Furnace is a moderate walk away from the (current) end of the canal at Snarestone, and you will be able to see the recent canal restoration, with only a small section to be restored before access to the Moira Furnace is once again possible.
		The Ashby Canal and North Oxford have a number of excellent public houses with superb food.
	www.ashbyboats.com /network.htm (833 words)

	The Bond End Canal
		However, the canal company refused to allow a connection to the canal and a situation, known as the Shobnall Bar, ensued with boats each side of the bar having to be unloaded and reloaded.
		In 1792/93 plans were published to build a canal from Burton, on the east side of the river to transport coal from the Derbyshire coal field.
		It is thought that the pub may date to before the canal when it was understood to be called The Gateway to Sinai, a reference to nearby Sinai Park where a retreat was built for the Abbott and monks from Burton Abbey.
	www.jannel.co.uk /bondend/index.htm (1355 words)

	Ashby Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Near Sutton Cheney Wharf it passes the foot of Ambion Hill, the site of the Battle of Bosworth Field.
		But the A46 main road has been built across the canal's formation making a complete re-opening unlikely in the near future.
		This page was last modified 02:52, 16 January 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ashby_Canal (340 words)

	GENUKI - Ashby de la Zouch Genealogy
		ashby parish is the largest in the whole county, comprising 8097 acres, and in 1871 had 8028 inhabitants....
		It is highly salubrious, and is celebrated for its saline baths and the extensive remains of its once formidable and famous baronial castle....
		The Ashby de la Zouch Cemetery is located on the Moira Rd (B5003) about half a mile westwards from the centre of the town.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/LEI/Ashby.html (485 words)

	About The Canal Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Coventry canal was built primarily to transport coal from the pits at Bedworth, Coventry and Nuneaton to the rest of the midlands and beyond.
		Beyond Fazeley the canal crosses the river Tame on an impressive aqueduct and skirts round the suburbs of Tamworth.
		From here the canal is known as the "five 'n half", by the locals, and refers to the mileage into the city centre.
	www.covcanalsoc.org.uk /canal_info.htm (964 words)

	ashby boat company, canal narrowboat and barge hire holidays, quality in tourism boat ratings stars
		The Ashby Canal is an unspoilt and lock-free rural canal winding its way through picturesque countryside, north past the Battle of Bosworth Field to Snarestone.
		Travel south to Marston Junction, and the Coventry Canal, and you are able to join the Oxford and Grand Union canals and a wide choice of canal and waterways cruising.
		A member of the Ashby Boat Company team will instruct them on the few but necessary technical aspects of the narrowboat to ensure that they have a carefree and enjoyable narrowboat holiday and canal cruising experience.
	www.ashbyboats.com (1195 words)

	Ashby Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Ashby canal was originally planned to link the Coventry Canal in the South with the river Trent at Burton.
		Nationally canals were being left derelict as rail transport spread but clauses in the bill of sale for the Ashby canal required the Railway Company to maintain the canal in reasonable order.
		The Northern reaches of the Ashby canal was at the heart of the Ashby Woulds coalfield.
	www.btinternet.com /~beckonline/History/Transport/Canal01/canal01.htm (379 words)

	IWA : Ashby Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This was originally intended to be a broad canal that would link the Coventry Canal to the Trent at Burton-on-Trent, as can be see from the broad bridges built to take barges.
		The canal was used for transporting coal to the lime works near Ashby-de-la-Zouch and carried coal from the coalfields around Moira and Measham.
		Coal continued to be carried on the canal until 1981.
	www.waterways.org.uk /Waterways/PrincipalNavigations/AshbyCanal (383 words)

	Ashby de la Zouch Tourist Information on AboutBritain.com
		The unusual name of Ashby de la Zouch is derived from the Breton nobleman, who inherited the estate through marriage in the 12th century.
		Ashby developed into a Spa town in the 19th century, it has a long wide main street, with fine Elizabethan half-timbered houses and delightful bow fronted Georgian shops.
		Sir Walter Scott took Ashby Castle as the setting for the tournament in his novel 'Ivanhoe', it was here that Mary Queen of Scots was held prisoner for a time by Lord Hastings's grandson first Earl of Huntingdon.
	www.aboutbritain.com /towns/ashby-de-la-zouch.asp (776 words)

	IWA : Ashby Canal (Under Restoration) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The northernmost part of the Canal, above Snarestone, closed following mining subsidence, but now that the mining in the area has ceased, Ashby Canal Association and other local interests are promoting restoration of the Canal back to its original terminus.
		A short section of the Canal at Moira was re-opened in 1999 and has been the venue for various Trailboat events since.
		Leicestershire County Council is promoting the restoration of the canal from its current terminus to Measham, where it is proposed to build a small marina, including a diversion along a disused railway line.
	www.waterways.org.uk /Waterways/PrincipalNavigations/AshbyCanalUnderRestoration (390 words)

	Britain's Canals \| Wyeman \| Fotki.com
		The canals have become a haven for wildlife of all kinds, from Kingfishers and Heron, to Water Voles and Wild Mink.
		A short canal created to carry coal from the mines to the industrial centres via the Coventry Canal to the South and the Trent & Mersey to the North.
		The junction of the Coventry Canal and thereby the Birmingham Navigations, with the Oxford Canal and thereby the Thames and London.
	public.fotki.com /wyeman/canals (853 words)

	Coventry Canal
		It is neither a long nor outstandingly attractive canal but it was, and still is, an important link between the northern and southern canal networks, cutting out the need to lock up to, and then down from, Birmingham.
		The Ashby Canal runs for 22 lock free miles through pleasant countryside and skirts the War of the Roses Bosworth Battlefield (1485) on which Richard III was killed.
		OTHER CANALS Ashton Canal, Basingstoke Canal, BCN, Bridgewater Canal, Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, Coventry Canal, Grand Union Canal, Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Kennet and Avon Canal, Lancaster Canal, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Llangollen Canal, Macclesfield Canal, Mon.
	www.canaljunction.com /canal/coventry_ashby.htm (551 words)

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