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	Canal to Nowhere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When the Caldon Canal opened in 1779 its summit level was shorter ending at Endon where three Park Lane Locks took the canal down to the Cheddleton level.
		Beside the locks is a plaque commemorating the re-opening of the canal on 28th September 1974, a reminder that much of the canal was un-navigable in the 1960's and that it was one of the many canals that were restored largely thanks to the efforts of waterways enthusiasts.
		Close to the Junction with the Uttoxeter canal is the wharf at the end of the Caldon Canal.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Canal-to-Nowhere.html (1979 words)

	Cauldon Canal
		The Caldon Canal joins the Trent and Mersey at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, and was built to carry minerals from the uplands of the Peak District to the Potteries.
		Limestone was brought by tramway to the canal terminus, and burnt in kilns.
		This is where the Caldon Canal meets the Trent and Mersey Canal, and the location of Jesse Shirley’s Etruscan Bone Mill, built in 1857 to provide materials for the pottery industry.
	www.thepotteries.org /waterways/cauldon_canal.htm (327 words)

	Trent and Mersey Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Caldon Branch - Trent and Mersey Canal: Hazelhurst Junction Narrowboat
		Caldon Branch - Trent and Mersey Canal: Froghall Tunnel Froghall wharf
		Caldon Branch - Trent and Mersey Canal: Froghall Tunnel New basin
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Trent-and-Mersey-Canal.html (2782 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 canal was engineered by John Rennie, and the bridges and aqueducts are built on his usual massive classical scale.
		The canal is known for its tunnels, at Harecastle, Barnton, Saltersford and Preston Brook.
	www.fatbadgers.co.uk /Britain/Canals.htm (4847 words)

	Caldon Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Canal obtained its Act of Parliament in 1776 and was completed in 1779.
		The canal was built to carry limestone from Caldon Low Quarries.
		In one of the UK's first major canal restoration projects the canal was restored between 1970 and 1974.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caldon_Canal (281 words)

	Caldon
		The Caldon is actually a branch of the Trent and Mersey, which itself forks into two separate navigations after leaving its parent at Stoke.
		The Caldon leaves the Trent and Mersey in the famous potteries town of Stoke-on-Trent, to head for the hills.
		Leek is attained after the branch canal watches the main line fall, then nips sharply over the top does a quick left over the Hazelhurst aqueduct.
	www.thewaterweb.net /Canals/Caldon/Caldon.html (631 words)

	Norton Green Local History - branch canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Caldon Canal - By the beginning of the 19th Century the pottery industry was making rapid progress, and the difficulty of getting its products to the ports was causing concern to the manufacturers, for the only transport was mostly by horse and cart over rough tracks.
		An arm of the canal came up to Mayer Street, Norton Green and much of the material used by the Cope's foundry came by barge and manufactured goods were able to leave by the same route.
		Early in 1777 the canal company was still buying land for the canal in the Shelton area and by 1778 construction of the canal had been carried forward sufficiently to start a number of other projects.
	www.norton-green.com /history.html_canal.htm (849 words)

	Trent & Mersey Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It was a masterpiece of engineering, one of the wonders of the canal age, but it caused the northern end of the Trent and Mersey to become virtually unused.
		The canal is behind the hedge by the side of the road though its quite a way down in a cutting.
		Shardlow is a real "canal village", it grew up around (and because of) the canal and even before the canal was open new hotels were built here to house the navvies.
	www.canals.btinternet.co.uk /canals/trentmersey.htm (7945 words)

	Andersen Boats, Cheshire UK - Canal Boat Holidays - Caldon canal
		At Hazelhurst Junction the Leek Branch of the Caldon Canal heads off on its brief, but astonishingly pretty journey to the self styled "Queen of the Moorlands", a fascinating old textile town with a watermill where James Brindley served his apprenticeship.
		Once upon a time the Caldon Canal extended all the way to Uttoxeter, but it was abandoned beyond the hamlet of Froghall in the nineteenth century and a railway built on its bed.
		But the canal builders weren't interested in aesthetics, and this serene and forgotten valley was once a hive of activity.
	www.andersenboats.com /caldon.htm (657 words)

	Caldon Canal
		Etruria junction with the Trent and Mersey canal.
		Canals which were short of construction money often used lift bridges, as on the Oxford Canal and on the Llangollen Canal on the right.
		The Council are authorised to construct over the navigable waters of the Caldon Canal the bridge specified in the Schedule to this Scheme as part of the improvements to pedestrian facilities in the vicinity of the Birches Head Canal Bridge, Birches Head in the City of Stoke-on-Trent in the County of Stafford.
	www.thepotteries.org /photos/caldon (1071 words)

	Staffordshire Past Track - Theme Explorer
		A wooden drawbridge on the Caldon Canal, between Cheddleton and Consall.
		The Caldon Canal was engineered by James Brindley and opened in 1777 as...
		Canals are now mostly used for recreation with many people owning or hiring canal barges for touring holidays.
	www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk /engine/theme/default.asp?theme=470 (269 words)

	Waterways News
		The Chairman of the new Uttoxeter Canal Restoration Committee and Cheadle Town Councillor Mike Maryon (right) said, “Local support is vital to canal restoration and we are pleased that residents in the Staffordshire Moorland and East Staffs are keen to see their canal brought back to life.
		Previously known as the Caldon Canal Society, the organisation was formed by enthusiasts in 1963 in response to notices closing the canal after traffic had declined in the 1950s.
		At Froghall the Caldon Canal terminates at its former junction with the Uttoxeter Canal, in the shadow of preserved limekilns where limestone was transhipped from the Cauldon Lowe quarry tramways on to narrow boats and later the North Staffordshire Railway - now the Churnet Valley Railway, preserved and operated by volunteers.
	www.canaljunction.com /news/news53.htm (751 words)

	Caldon Canal Holiday
		We soon forgot that when Kathryn managed to drop a mooring spike in the canal – luckily it was near the side and Dave M bravely managed to retrieve it.
		The first locks on the Caldon are staircase locks - well that confused us for a while but with the help and advice of some other 'more experienced' boaters we climbed to the top of the staircase and continued along the Caldon.
		We set off up the Macclesfield canal and it stopped raining - by the time we had stopped for lunch at the foot of Bosely Locks the batteries had regained their charge and we had lights and toilet flushes once more.
	holiday01.netfirms.com (2769 words)

	UK Canal Boating with Black Prince Narrowboat Holidays
		The variety is endless, city, town, village and country, wide canal, and narrow canal.
		Canal holidays are fun - whether with family or friends, you can choose an easy relaxing route or a holiday of adventure and exploration.
		In the days before motorways and railways, they were the main method of transport, with whole families living in boats while earning their living.
	www.black-prince.com (437 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As the canal leaves the immediate environs of Hanley and curves first north and then north east it passes the Foxley public house, situated on a right angle bend in the waterway.
		Although the valley is now wide enough to permit the river and canal their own separate beds it is still narrow by normal standards.
		However, considering that the Caldon is such a haven of peace and quiet and that just four miles further down the valley is the theme park of Alton Towers, perhaps it is just as well that the Caldon Canal ends where it does in the peace of Froghall Wharf.
	www.johntodd.freeserve.co.uk /originals/caldon/caldon.htm (1869 words)

	Waterways News
		A team of dedicated and enthusiastic British Waterways employees, from the Caldon Canal, have recently won the Conservation Award for Built Heritage for the reconstruction of Oakmeadowford Bridge, near to Cheddleton.
		The bridge has been restored sympathetically, retaining its original features, and is an attractive structure along this picturesque section of the Caldon Canal.
		It is wonderful to see such heritage restoration and the structure has enhanced and enriched the canal scene in the area".
	www.canalia.com /waterwaysdirectory/charit.htm (306 words)

	Canal Cruising on the Caldon canal
		Not the end of the main Caldon line, but BW reduced the winding hole at Froghall tunnel to 65 ft. But it is a very pretty place to turn.
		The upper ’pounds’ of the Caldon and it’s Leek branch have got to be one of the prettiest canals in the UK.
		In full length narrowboat handling terms, the Caldon and it’s Leek branch are quite demanding with some very strange (and tight) turns, but that just adds to the fun of it.
	www.hotelnarrowboat.com /Caldon.htm (595 words)

	Canal cruising routes from Stoke on Trent
		Canal cruising the Caldon canal, Four Counties Ring, Cheshire Ring or the East Midlands Ring
		You can choose between cruising the Caldon canal, the Four Counties Ring, the Cheshire Ring or the East Midlands Ring.
		This is a lovely canal passing through Congleton and Macclesfield to the junction at Marple.
	www.stokeontrentmarina.co.uk /canal_routes.htm (588 words)

	Jon and Gin 'On the Run, four counties and welsh canals': A photographic diary of 2000 miles around the English and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Using the: Shropshire Union Canal, the Middlewich Branch Canal, Trent and Mersey and the Caldon Canal.
		The colour of the canal was orange, due to the iron deposits in the water.
		This part of the canal is peacefully atmospheric as the river Chutney shares its course with the canal for a mile.
	www.canalstock.co.uk /boattrip/summertrip2002part2.htm (2372 words)

	Trent and Mersey Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Trent and Mersey Canal is a canal linking the River Trent at Shardlow in Derbyshire to the River Mersey at Runcorn in Cheshire.
		Less than eleven years later, the whole canal, including more than 70 locks and five tunnels, was open, with the company headquarters in Stone.
		The canal passes south through the city of Stoke-on-Trent, where it formed an integral part of the 1986 National Garden Festival, the Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trent_and_Mersey_Canal (405 words)

	Walk #650: A circular walk from Cheddleton to Rudyard Lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I soon reached the canal bridge and therefore the end of the walk, and I am please to say that the journey back to Cambridge was unhampered by the snow that sporadically fell.
		When facing the canal from the adjacent car park turn right to head under the bridge and then follow the canal as it heads westwards for a little under a kilometre until two locks bridge 42, which carries the A520 over the canal, is reached.
		The stream is actually a feeder supply for the Caldon Canal, and it soon curves to head northwestwards and finally northwards before ending at the base of Rudyard reservoir dam, about two and a half miles from the car park.
	www.britishwalks.org /walks/2005/650.php (2461 words)

	Reed Hotel Boats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Caldon canal, more correctly the Caldon branch of the Trent and Mersey canal, was designed to serve the Limestone quarries near Froghall.
		However others carried on the canal and it was opened in 1779 from Froghall to its junction at Eturia with the Trentand Mersey canal.
		The Caldon Canal Society was then formed to save this lovely waterway and led the fight to restore it.
	www.reedboats.co.uk /routes/canals/cal.html (923 words)

	Trent & Mersey Canal
		The Caldon Canal currently finishes at Froghall Wharf which can be reached by some boats through the very low Froghall Tunnel.
		However the Caldon and Uttoxeter Canals Trust have restored what was the first lock at Froghall on the Uttoxeter Canal.
		This canal was closed in the nineteenth century and a railway built over it.
	www.canaljunction.com /canal/trent_mersey.htm (896 words)

	The caldon canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		42-45), includes an article on the 25th anniversary of the re-opening of the Caldon Canal in Staffordshire, on the 28th of September 1974.
		The reason for including this photo, is what my wife is holding in her hand, that is the Caldon Canal guide, then (June 69) recently produced by the Caldon Canal Society.
		It was this which prompted us to walk the length of the Caldon, and which was to engender our life long interest in the canal system.
	www.colinfparsons.btinternet.co.uk /twinp/colhome/caldon/default.htm (341 words)

	Caldon Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This branch canal from Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, to Froghall was constructed when Josiah Wedgwood and management of the Trent and Mersey Canal Company decided that it would be profitable to have a canal in this area.
		This was because the area was rich in coal and iron ore but the main attraction was the limestone at Caldon Low.
		This sequence of events coupled with his deteriorating health lead to his death on the 27th September 1772.
	www.christcorner.com /jamesbrindley/caldoncanal.html (99 words)

	Take a canal boating holiday with Stoke on Trent Marine Cruises
		Built about two centuries ago, the UK canal system provides you with the tranquillity and grace that many of us miss in our day to day lives, giving you the time to savour the beautiful countryside and all of its fine fayre as you speed along at little more than walking pace.
		On your canal boating holiday you’ll share the peaceful world of moorhens, coots, grebes and herons as well as the amazing kingfisher, all of whom have made the canal their home.
		Click to see your choice of canal cruising routes from Stoke on Trent including the Caldon canal, the Four Counties Ring, the Cheshire Ring and the East Midlands Ring.
	www.stokeontrentmarina.co.uk /boating_holiday.htm (472 words)

	IWA : Caldon Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Caldon Canal leaves the Trent and Mersey Canal at Etruria Junction and travels through the heart of the once-industrialised Potteries before heading up into the Staffordshire Moorlands.
		It is worth noting that at the current time local IWA members consider that the gauge is approximately 4 inches/ 100mm on the pessimistic side (discussions ongoing with BW), so if it is a close fit on the gauge your boat will probably fit through the tunnel with no problem.
		This part of the Trent and Mersey system was built to carry limestone from the quarries around Froghall and the remains of many limestone kilns can still be seen in the area.
	www.waterways.org.uk /Waterways/PrincipalNavigations/CaldonCanal (626 words)

	The Caldon Peak
		The Caldon Peak left Crewe, on time, at 9.00am, topped and tailed by the international combination of 37 407 Loch Long and 37 429 Eisteddfod, and headed for Stoke, where we picked up more participants.
		The canal over canal aqueduct is clearly visible from the train.
		We crept away from the junction and onto the Caldon line, crossing the main road on the high embankment which will be familiar to many who have travelled north through Leek.
	www.geoffspages.co.uk /tripsntours/caldon_peak.htm (1454 words)

	Caldon Canal: Waterscape.com
		Built as a branch of the cross-country Trent and Mersey, this picturesque waterway from Stoke-on-Trent to the heart of Staffordshire has assumed the status of a canal in its own right.
		The Caldon runs for 18 miles from Stoke to Froghall, with a three-mile branch to Leek.
		On leaving the industrial environs of the Potteries, the canal becomes increasingly picturesque as it follows the Churnet Valley - even sharing the river's course for a while.
	www.waterscape.com /Caldon_Canal (159 words)

	Cruising Routes and Suggestions
		Sights such as the Harecastle Tunnel (where the canal water is orange) to the 26 locks of Heartbreak Hill make this adventure truly stunning.
		The Llangollen Canal and breathtaking scenery of Wales: experience the dramatic splendor of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
		Turn onto the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal at Autherley Junction and take in the local attractions of Shrugborough Hall and County Museum.Then cruise northerly on the Trent and Mersey Canal to join the Caldon Canal.
	www.countrysidecruising.co.uk /routes.htm (974 words)

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