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	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.
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	Chester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chester is the county town of Cheshire in the northwestern England, close to the border with Wales.
		Chester continued to deal with its loss of trade throughout the centuries, and in the 1640s English Civil War the Battle of Rowton Moor occurred in nearby meadows, where the Parliamentary Forces crushed the Royalist loyal Cavaliers.
		Chester has a railway station to the North East of the city centre, designed by Francis Thompson with an impressive Italianate frontage dating from 1848, though the interior is somewhat dilapidated, having lost a roof in the Chester General rail crash.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chester (1968 words)

	Chester Canal - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Chester Canal was a canal linking the south Cheshire town of Nantwich with the River Dee at Chester, providing a route for produce (including salt) from Nantwich to reach Chester and, beyond it, the sea via the Dee estuary.
		Today, it is part of the Shropshire Union Canal, and - being instigated by an Act of Parliament in 1777 - it is also the oldest section.
		Until the building of the later Ellesmere Canal (1805) and the Trent and Mersey Canal it was under-used.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Chester_Canal (131 words)

	Discover Chester, England, Great Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Chester is the county town of Cheshire in the north-west of England, close to the border with Wales.
		Chester has a railway station to the North East of the town centre with an impressive italianate frontage of 1848, though the interior is somewhat dilapidated.
		Chester was at this time the largest port in Northern England, with the trade that this created bringing affluence to the city.
	www.magicaljourneys.com /England/england-discover-chester.html (1126 words)

	Thomas Telford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Telford's reputation in Shropshire led to his appointment in 1793 to manage the detailed design and construction of the Ellesmere Canal, linking the ironworks and collieries of Wrexham via the north-west Shropshire town of Ellesmere, with Chester (utilising the existing Chester Canal), and then the River Mersey.
		Among other structures, this canal involved building an aqueduct over the River Dee in the Vale of Llangollen; for the spectacular Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, Telford used a new method of construction consisting of troughs made from cast iron plates and fixed in masonry.
		The Ellesmere Canal was finally completed in 1805 but alongside his canal responsibilities, Telford's reputation as a civil engineer meant he was constantly consulted on numerous other projects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Telford (1022 words)

	Ellesmere Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Because of this (and also due to arguments with the River Dee Company) the Chester Canal was never much of a success and by the time the Ellesmere Canal project was under way, the Chester Canal had been abandoned by its owners and was becoming derelict.
		The link-up between the Ellesmere Canal and the Chester Canal was a very friendly agreement compared to some canal "partnerships" around the country at that time.
		The route from Pontcysyllte to Wrexham and Chester was never built; the southern end of the main line fell well short of Shrewsbury and became known as the Weston Branch; the Prees Branch also failed to reach the village which gave it its name.
	www.btinternet.com /~canals/canals/ellesmerecanalroot.htm (1709 words)

	Montgomeryshire Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Shropshire Union Canal network was soon taken over by London and North Western Railway though the new owners were unable to build tracks on the canal due to legal wrangles in parliament.
		LMS were infamous for their dislike of canals and thus they did very little to maintain the waterways under their control, the condition of the Montgomeryshire Canal declined very rapidly.
		The canal had to be re-routed along a brand new 300 yard cut, this left the original stretch unused though it was to be kept as a mini nature reserve to preserve the wildlife which had established since the canal's closure.
	www.canals.btinternet.co.uk /canals/montgomeryshireroot.htm (2291 words)

	Chester County, Pennsylvania\|Chester County Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It was also not the silting of the River Dee that created the land which is now Chester's racecourse (known as the Roodee), on which a stone cross, once used as a water level marker, still stands, since the Roodee was in existence as early as the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
		Chester's weekly newspapers are the Chester Chronicle and the Chester Standard.
		Chester has a railway station to the North East of the town centre, designed by Francis Thompson with an impressive italianate frontage of 1848, though the interior is somewhat dilapidated.
	www.echostatic.com /Chester_County,_Pennsylvania\|Chester_County.html (1391 words)

	Chester Canal Root (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It was proposed because the traders of Chester feared that the Trent and Mersey Canal would steal trade away from the River Dee.
		It was planned that the Chester Canal would run from the River Dee in Chester to the Trent and Mersey Canal at Middlewich, thus providing a short cut route between the Potteries and Liverpool.
		Unlike the Trent and Mersey Canal, which was a narrow waterway, the Chester Canal was to be a broad (barge) canal.
	www.canals.btinternet.co.uk /canals/chestercanalroot.htm (772 words)

	Shropshire Union Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This comprises the former Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, the Chester Canal, the Wirral Line of the Ellesmere Canal and the Middlewich Branch.
		This was typical of Telford, he built long straight stretches of canal on one level, followed by a cluster of locks close together over as short a distance as possible, rather than the working boatman's nightmare of lock after lock over many miles with only a hundred yards between each lock.
		Unlike the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, the Chester Canal is a broad waterway.
	www.btinternet.com /~canals/canals/shropshireunionroute.htm (3592 words)

	Encyclopedia: Chester Canal
		Old Dee Bridge, River Dee, Chester, England (2002) The River Dee (Welsh: Afon Dyfrdwy) is a 70 mile (110 km) long river, which rises in Snowdonia, Wales and discharges to the sea a few miles west of Liverpool.
		The Shropshire Union Canal near Norbury Junction The Shropshire Union Canal is a canal linking Wolverhampton with the River Mersey.
		The Trent and Mersey Canal is a canal linking the River Trent at Shardlow in Derbyshire to the River Mersey at Runcorn in Cheshire.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Chester-Canal (416 words)

	Chester Waterways
		Canal boats can be rented by the day; or take a trip on a waterbus, or horse-drawn canal boat - some of which have restaurant facilities.
		North of Nantwich, the canal - built originally as the Chester Canal - is a wide waterway following the gentle rolling landscape of western Cheshire to Ellesmere Port.
		But the southern half of the canal - built in the twilight of the canal age - is an astonishing feat of engineering.
	www.chestercc.gov.uk /main.asp?page=1131 (250 words)

	PNRC0261
		Of the canals and collateral branches authorized to be made, by powers granted under the respective acts of parliament relating to this navigation, the following have not been executed, and as the acts are repealed, they cannot now be done.
		As the canal company intend to construct harbours, or ports, with piers, jetties, lights, and other works at the two extremities of the navigation, it is enacted, that they shall be entitled to the following harbour dues, to be paid by all ships or other vessels which may use the said harbours, &c.
		The chief object and advantages to be derived from the execution of this ship canal, is the shortening and rendering more certain and expeditious the passage of all vessels trading from the Bristol Channel, the ports of Ireland, and the western ports of England, to the English Channel.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/PNRC0261.htm (2996 words)

	Canal History & Heritage & Canal Museums
		Canal history shows canals as an essential part of the Industrial Revolution, bringing materials in, taking finished goods out, changing landscape, lives and culture.
		Canal people drifted apart from land locked 18th/19th century Britain, developing their own free-floating canal culture, traditions, customs, ways of work and dress.
		Horses are an important part of canal history, hauling canal boats into the middle of the 20th century, but their story gets overlooked in this mechanical age.
	www.canaljunction.com /canal/heritage.htm (349 words)

	B&W Picture Place: The Chester Canal 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the far distance may just be glimpsed the tall Water Tower belonging to the Chester Water Company in Boughton, situated close to the springs that served both the Roman fortress and medieval Abbey and town- and which continues to supply Chester with good water to this day.
		The road along the left-hand side of the canal is Union Terrace, which led to the businesslike-sounding Cement Place and Leadworks Lane.
		This photograph of Canalside- the road along the right-hand side of the canal as we view it- was taken around the same time as the one above, showing the Ring Road bridge during the course of construction.
	www.bwpics.co.uk /gallery/oldcanal2.html (765 words)

	Articles - Canals of the United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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 (675 words)

	Thomas Telford - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Eminent canal engineer William Jessop oversaw the project, but the detailed execution of the project was very much left in Telford's hands.
		Most notably (and, again, William Pulteney was influential in his 1801 appointment), Telford devised a masterplan to improve communications in the Highlands of Scotland, a massive project that was to last some 20 years.
		It included the building of the Caledonian Canal along the Great Glen (and redesign of sections of the Crinan Canal), some 920 miles of new roads, over a thousand new bridges, numerous harbour improvements (including works at Aberdeen, Dundee, Peterhead and Banff, to name but four), and 32 new churches.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Thomas_Telford (895 words)

	Articles - Shropshire Union Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It has been described as the last trunk canal route to be built in England, being completed in 1835, and it was the last major civil engineering accomplishment of Thomas Telford.
		Most of the canal (the stretch south of the Cheshire town of Nantwich) was originally constructed as the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal.
		In 1846, the Shrewsbury Canal and other canals in the east Shropshire network (linking modern-day Telford with the River Severn to the south at Coalport) were acquired by the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company.
	www.foreverc.com /articles/Shropshire_Union_Canal (283 words)

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		The earliest part of the system was the Chester Canal which ran from Chester to Nantwich and was constructed under an Act of Parliament in 1772.
		The Montgomery Canal was built under another Act of Parliament of 1794 and ran from Carreghofa to the Newtown Basin and was used principally for the carrying of lime for agricultural use.
		The canal was intended to transport lime for agricultural use and coal to fire the lime kilns.
	www.shropshireunion.org.uk /history.htm (485 words)

	Shropshire Union Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The scenery is often quite dramatic, with sweeping views across to the Welsh Marches and the strangely shaped ridge called "The Wrekin" from the long embankments and with the atmospheric heavily wooded deep cuttings, a number of which were reputed by the old boat people to be haunted.
		The canal was one of the last built and borrowed from the latest railway building methods, taking a direct line cross country, on embankments and through cuttings.
		The Shropshire Union was formed by the "union" of a number of canals, that from Nantwich to Chester was built to broad barge standards, and many miles of little used branches through Shropshire were abandoned earlier this century.
	www.canaljunction.com /csu.htm (535 words)

	The Shropshire Union Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Southern section of the Shroppie, from Autherley Junction, is one of the latest of the narrow canals.
		This is in sharp contrast to the much older wide beam canal to the north which meanders, river-like, around the contours of the landscape, and through some of the oldest and most attractive parts of the City of Chester.
		The canal terminates at a basin within the Ellesmere Port Boat Museum, which is a "must" for any canal enthusiast.
	www.videoactive.co.uk /leisure/canal/shrop.htm (197 words)

	Waterway and canal boat holidays, routes, cruises and information from the Whitchurch hire base (Llangollen canal) of ...
		The countryside is peaceful and unspoilt, there are many interesting canal features and a highlight of the trip is a visit to the historic city of Chester.
		It carries the canal 1,000 feet across the Dee valley at a height of 120 feet.
		In the centre of the city you pass briefly onto the Rochdale Canal with its flight of nine locks.
	www.viking-afloat.co.uk /base_whitchurch.htm (925 words)

	Local Heritage Initiative - Researching, Archiving & Presenting the Canal's History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The project is one of several interrelated ones aiming to foster an awareness of the Canal.
		The Canal was a key artery of trade with a unique combination of waterways features e.g.
		The Canal's heritage and its importance in the transport network of the North West of England tell a uniquely fascinating story which, it is hoped, will enthuse both young and old.
	www.lhi.org.uk /projects_directory/projects_by_region/north_west/cheshire/researching_archiving_presenting_the_canals_history (201 words)

	B&W Picture Place: The Chester Canal 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Chester's oldest public clock (left), made by Whitehurst of Derby in 1803- 200 years ago, it was formerly installed in the wall of one of the sheds at the Leadworks.
		Looking further up the canal, the church whose steeple may just be seen through the murk on the right hand side of the canal- the Methodist Central Hall- was demolished in the 1970s and the site is now occupied by a car park next to two modern blocks of flats.
		The canal towpath appears to be in a poor condition and full of potholes- a situation which continued until just a couple of years ago when a new cycletrack and footpath were laid, which today provides Chester's citizens with a superb car-free route into the city centre and beyond.
	www.bwpics.co.uk /gallery/oldcanal.html (2285 words)

	Shropshire Routes to Roots \| Transport and Communication \| The Shropshire Union Canal
		The Ellesmere and Chester Canal was formed in 1813 by the merger of the two canals in its title.
		This would be an easy conversion, as the canal had been built by Telford virtually to 'railway' standards: almost straight, with tall embankments and deep cuttings.
		In 1845, an Act was passed enabling the Ellesmere and Chester to absorb the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction.
	www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk /roots/packages/tra/tra_u08.htm (462 words)

	Shropshire Union Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Was a 17 mile, 11 lock, tub-boat canal from Shrewsbury to the Donnington Wood Canal, via a mile of the Wombridge Canal, which the company purchased, and an inclined plane which they built to connect to it.
		The Shropshire Union Canal Society : The Society was formed in 1968 to promote interest in the past, present and future of 158 miles of canal comprising the main line and branches.
		Canal Photographs : Leeds and Liverpool, Trent and Mersey, Shropshire Union and French Canals.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Shropshire-Union-Canal.html (1563 words)

	Andersen Boats, Cheshire UK - Canal Boat Holidays - Chester&the boat museum
		In Roman and Medieval times Chester was a thriving port on the River Dee, so journeying there by boat seems an appropriate way of approaching this wonderfully romantic and historic city.
		But the Shropshire Union Canal doesn't terminate at Chester, it pushes on across the base of the Wirral to Ellesmere Port on the banks of the mighty Mersey, home to the Boat Museum, Britain's premier collection of preserved canal craft displayed in an authentic dockland environment.
		At the outset you head westwards along the Shropshire Union Canal to Barbridge Junction where you pursue your leisurely course along the quiet waters of the old broadbeam Chester Canal.
	www.andersenboats.com /chester.htm (505 words)

	Shropshire Routes to Roots \| Transport and Communication \| The Shropshire Union Canal
		The oldest of the constituents was the Chester Canal, a broad canal going from the River Dee at Chester down to Nantwich.
		Until it was connected to the main canal network, the Chester Canal was an economic failure.
		The Trent and Mersey Canal persuaded Parliament that it should be allowed to construct the last few yards to connect their canal with the Chester Canal.
	www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk /roots/packages/tra/tra_u02.htm (229 words)

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