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	Crinan Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Crinan Canal is a waterway of great beauty and the towpath makes an excellent walk, because it is just 9 miles long it can easily be walked in a day (although a road runs alongside it the whole way for those who prefer a less energetic journey).
		To the north is the sea and the entrance of Loch Crinan.
		In the settlement of Crinan is a fork in the road.
	www.canals.btinternet.co.uk /canals/crinancanal.htm (4871 words)

	Crinan Canal Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		Until the coming of the railways the fastest way to travel between Glasgow and Inverness was by steamer using the Crinan Canal and the Caledonian Canal, usually calling at Oban en route.
		The Crinan Canal's starting point is at Ardrishaig, a little under two miles south of Lochgilphead.
		The Crinan Canal is a relic of another age when travel was slower and the world much bigger.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /crinan/crinancanal (769 words)

	Crinan Canal -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The canal has essentially no height limit, and is a common route today for (An expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing) yachts to travel from the (A firth on the southwestern coast of Scotland emptying into the North Channel) Firth of Clyde to the west coast of Scotland.
		It was originally built for commercial (Click link for more info and facts about Clyde puffer) Clyde puffers to travel between the industrialised region around (Largest city in Scotland; a port in west central Scotland; one of the great shipbuilding centers of the world) Glasgow to the West Highland vilages and islands.
		Problems, particularly with the locks, meant that some parts of the canal had to be redesigned - a task that fell to (Click link for more info and facts about Thomas Telford) Thomas Telford in 1816.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cr/crinan_canal.htm (229 words)

	Scotland in the nineteenth century: Section 15.2: Canals [ebook chapter] / J A Haythornthwaite, 1993
		A comparison of the revenue derived from tolls on the Crinan Canal between 1804 and 1812 is given in the appendix (p.
		The Committee agreed that the Caledonian Canal should be improved and repaired but that the Crinan Canal should be left until the other works were finished in the hope that private money might be spent on it.
		The railways had been thought of as rivals to the canal but most witnesses who were asked thought the problems of transhipping goods would leave the canal as the preferred route.
	gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk /haynin/haynin1502.htm (1217 words)

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		The Crinan canal in the west of Scotland cuts across Kintyre and enables sea going boats to get to the Firth of Clyde without going round the Mull of Kintyre, which can be stormy.
		The Crinan goes through some beautiful scenery in a part of Scotland which is dear to me - my mother was brought up on Gigha, an island near there, where her father was ferryman.
		Although the Crinan is not a canal associated with narrow boats it is still a canal and as such must be boated upon and Iain and I had wanted to take Gamebird there but there just never seemed to be enough time.
	www.ann.street.btinternet.co.uk /gbird/crinan.htm (1448 words)

	Crinan Local Info on Undiscovered Scotland
		The village of Crinan is rather less well known than the Crinan Canal, which enters the Sound of Jura here.
		The Crinan Canal took its name from the original small settlement on the east side of the headland here, where the Crinan Ferry landed.
		Until 1960, Crinan Bridge on the east side of the headland here was linked by ferry to the appropriately named Crinan Ferry on the north side of the loch.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /crinan/crinan/info.html (357 words)

	Crinan Canal
		The canal basin at Crinan is picturesque and enjoyable for pottering around whilst watching the boats and yachts entering or leaving the canal.
		The Crinan Canal is bordered by the Moine Mhor.
		The views of the west coast from the entrance to the Crinan canal are excellent.
	www.toadholidays.co.uk /html/crinan_canal.html (627 words)

	Sail Scotland
		The majestic Caledonian Canal is 96.6km (60 miles) in length of which 35.4km (22 miles) is man made.
		Nonetheless, the Canal has played a significant role in the development of the Highland economy, fostering trade between East and West, as well as with Germany, Holland and the Scandinavian countries.
		The canal is now open providing coast to coast navigation while creating a circular network of canals for those wishing to explore Scotland by sea.
	www.sailscotland.co.uk /canals.cfm (617 words)

	CRINAN CANAL FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nine miles long, it connects Ardrishaig on Loch_Fyne with the Sound_of_Jura, providing a navigable route between the Clyde and the Inner_Hebrides, without the need for a long diversion around the Kintyre peninsula, and in particular the exposed Mull_of_Kintyre.
		The canal was originally built for commercial ''Clyde_puffers '' to travel between the industrialised region around Glasgow to the West Highland vilages and islands.
		Problems, particularly with the locks, meant that some parts of the canal had to be redesigned - a task that fell to Thomas_Telford in 1816.
	www.mrspell.com /Crinan_Canal (177 words)

	Books: Crinan Canal: The Shipping Short Cut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Work on the Crinan Canal commenced in 1794 but the project was beset by financial and engineering problems and quickly had to be baled out by the Government.
		The short but scenic canal has been popular with tourists ever since, and as commercial traffic dwindled in the first half of the twentieth century yachts and pleasure cruisers replaced fishing boats and puffers.
		The route of the canal from Crinan to Ardrishaig is illustrated in a collection of pictures that feature both canal life and some of the small communities that once lay alongside it.
	www.stenlake.co.uk /books/326.htm (141 words)

	Crinan - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Crinan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Crinan is a name of western Celtic origin and it has a number of contexts:
		* The Crinan Canal is a waterway in Scotland with one of its outlets at Crinan
		* Crinan the Thane de Mormaer (Earl of) Dunkeld was a powerful Scottish lord around the beginning of the 11th Century.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Crinan.html (101 words)

	IWA Individual Waterways - Crinan Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The canal runs from Crinan to Ardrishaig with 15 locks and 6 swing bridges along the 9 miles.
		Although it was not finished, the canal was opened in 1801.
		Forth and Clyde and Union Canals (with the Crinan Canal) – GEOProjects
	www.waterways.org.uk /ind_waterways/crinan (113 words)

	Chichester Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A proposed barge canal from The Chester Canal at Nantwich to the Trent and Mersey Canal at Burton on Trent.
		The whole of the rest of the canal, except for half a mile, was abandoned in 1944 and the final stretch to Langley Mill in 1962.
		The original idea was for a canal from the Tyne near Gateshead to the navigable part of the River Wear leading to Sunderland with a further canal to Durham.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Chichester-Canal.html (850 words)

	Crinan Canal Guide and Holiday Cottages
		The canal runs parallel to the sea for quite some way before cutting across the bottom of Mòine Mhór and hitting a flight of locks either side of CAIRNBAAN (there are fifteen in total); a walk along the towpath is both picturesque and pleasantly unstrenuous.
		Crinan's tiny harbour is, for the moment at least, still home to a small fishing fleet.
		Bar meals at the Crinan are expensive, but utterly delicious, as is the hotel's even more expensive seafood restaurant, Lock 16, on the top floor, which commands a panoramic view; there's only one sitting, at 8pm, so booking is advisable.
	www.unique-cottages.com /guide/argyll/mid-argyll/crinan_canal (326 words)

	Crinan Canal - Travelscotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kilmartin Glen is bordered to the south by the Crinan Canal, a nine-mile stretch of waterway linking Loch Fyne at Ardrishaig with the Sound of Jura.
		It was designed and built by Sir John Rennie in 1801, with the assistance of the ubiquitous Thomas Telford, to allow shipping to avoid the long and often hazardous journey round the Mull of Kintyre and to help stimulate trade in the islands.
		The best place to view the canal traffic is at Crinan, a pretty little fishing port on Loch Crinan at the western end of the canal.
	www.travelscotland.co.uk /guide/Crinan_Canal (303 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Top Stories - Canals floated as an answer to road chaos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The canal reconnection at Port Dundas on the Forth and Clyde in Glasgow is progressing well and extended maintenance has been undertaken on other waterways during the winter.
		The amount of freight traffic using it began to fall as the railway network grew, and the Forth and Clyde Canal was mainly used by fishing and pleasure craft after 1918.
		The Union Canal, which links Edinburgh to the Forth and Clyde Canal at Falkirk, was opened in 1822, four years after construction began.
	news.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=305912005 (1401 words)

	Historical perspective for Crinan Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		rinan, a village, a sea-loch, and a canal, in Argyllshire.
		The village, called sometimes Port-Crinan, stands in Kilmartin parish, on the northern side of the sealoch, not far from the W end of the canal, 5¼ miles WNW of Lochgilphead, under which it has a post office; at it are an excellent inn, a wharf and slip, and a lighthouse.
		The canal is used chiefly by small coasting and fishing vessels, by goods steamboats plying between the Clyde and lnverness, and by an elegant, roomy, and well-appointed steamboat conveying passengers between large steamers at Ardrishaig and PortCrinan.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/features/featurehistory1169.html (489 words)

	Crinan Canal - Argyll - Scotland
		In the stretch from Ardrishaig to Crinan there are 15 locks and the canal reaches a height of 65 feet above sea level.
		The village of Bellanoch is very picturesque with it's large basin where craft are moored, this basin is sea level, but the canal does not join the sea yet, it continues parallel with Loch Crinan.
		Crinan Harbour is one of the most attractive spots in Scotland.
	www.muasdaleholidays.com /crinan.htm (383 words)

	Oban 56
		Our passage to Crinan took us between islands of varying sizes, past dark rocks protruding from beneath the water, around peninsulas and isthmuses, with mountains and loch entrances in the distance and, every now and again, glimpses of a bigger, less crowded sea.
		At times it is the line between canal and woodland, some of it wild oak, ash and birch, elsewhere managed pine forest or the space where the forest was before it was logged and shipped out on a bright red vessel being loaded at Ardrishaig.
		We were finally spat lazily out by the canal into the rain of Loch Fyne and it was only then that the claustrophobia of the last few miles really hit home.
	www.arounddeeply.org.uk /logs/37day.htm (1253 words)

	Did You Know? - Crinan Canal, Argyll
		Before the Crinan Canal was built, ships travelling from the Clyde to the west coast and the Hebrides had to travel an extra 130 miles round the dangerous long finger of the Kintyre peninsula.
		The Crinan Canal runs between Ardrishaig and Crinan and is nine miles long, rising by locks to a maximum height of 64ft.
		A special steamer was built to carry passengers from one end of the canal to the other - though it travelled so slowly many passengers walked alongside instead.
	www.rampantscotland.com /know/blknow28.htm (145 words)

	Overview of Crinan Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Crinan Canal lies towards the top of the Kintyre Peninsula on the West Coast of Scotland to allow passage from Loch Fyne to the Sound of Jura.
		The engineering problems were difficult; because the canal was open to the sea at both ends, the effects of tides had to be taken into account and the water-loss was considerable and therefore a good supply had to be assured.
		The canal eventually opened, with 15 locks and rising to a maximum height of 21m (68 feet), in 1801, but was not properly completed until 1817.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/features/featurefirst1169.html (352 words)

	Scottish Canals.
		Forth and Clyde and Union Canals Tourist map of the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals with the Crinan Canal featuring the canal corridors at 1:60,000 showing boat user facilities with details of boatyards, boat hire and boat trip operaters.
		The canals linking Edinburgh and Glasgow are not only historical monuments, but they offer an ever-growing opportunity for recreational activity, whether on the water, enjoying the wildlife, walking the towpaths, exploring the surrounding areas or simply making the most of the rural tranquility of the heart of Scotland.
		This book answers that question by charting the canals' story from their early eyars, through decline and demise, to ultimate revival.
	www.visitdunkeld.com /scottish-canals.htm (495 words)

	Crinan Canal - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Crinan Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Crinan Canal - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Crinan Canal.
		The list of the Crinan Canal Authors is
		The orginal Crinan Canal article can be editet
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Crinan-Canal.html (250 words)

	Crinan Canal - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Crinan Canal - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The canal was originally built for commercial Clyde puffers to travel between the industrialised region around Glasgow to the West Highland vilages and islands.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Crinan Canal contains research on
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Crinan_Canal (221 words)

	The Inland Waterways Association Online Book & Gift Shop
		Edited by Dudley Courtman and John Marriage (Chelmer Canal Trust) This is a charming and evocative collection of reminiscences from the quietest and unspoilt corners of Essex.
		An interesting selection of archive photographs taken on the Crinan Canal in the early 1900s, accompanied by informative captions about the Canal’s construction and the puffers, ferries and paddle steamers that travelled on it.
		Chichester's connection to both the canal network and the sea was made in 1822 with the opening of a branch from the Sussex line of the new Portsmouth and Arundel Navigation.
	www.iwashop.com /ecommerce/products.asp?cat=83&pg=2 (627 words)

	Crinan Canal Tale, Scot AnSgeulaiche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This page holds the unabridged version of the Crinan Canal Tale, commissioned by the British Waterways for the Cinan Canal Visitor Brochure 2004.
		Mind you, he thought, the other route over the hills is worse to avoid the canal.
		He wondered how many of the steerage passengers would be walking the 9 mile tow-path to Crinan to save the fair on the The Maid.
	www.ansgeulaiche.co.uk /crinan.html (1204 words)

	crinan canal photographs pictures and images of Scotland
		This is a photograph of the Crinan Canal in Scotland
		The Crinan Canal starts at Ardrishaig on Loch Fyne, and ends nine miles away at Crinan on the Sound of Jura.
		Originally designed as a quick means of transport to provide a link between the west coast and islands at one end and the Industrial heartland of the Clyde Estuary at the other.
	www.scotlandforvisitors.co.uk /crinancanal2.php (129 words)

	Crinan Canal Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Crinan is approx 130km (80 miles) from Glasgow, only a scenic 2 hours by car via Dumbarton, Loch Lomond, Inveraray and on to Lochgilphead along the A83.
		The regular bus service from Glasgow to Campbeltown stops conveniently at Lochgilphead and Ardrishaig on the Crinan Canal.
		The nearest station would be Oban, 42km (36 miles) distant, or Glasgow 130km (80 miles) from Crinan and Lochgilphead.
	www.scottishcanals.co.uk /html/1_waterways/1-2_crinan/1-2_main.htm (413 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Scotland \| Body found during canal drainage
		Clyde coastguard said the unidentified body was spotted in the Crinan Canal at Lochgilphead, near Oakfield Bridge, on Sunday morning.
		The discovery was made at about 1130 GMT on Sunday in a drained area of the canal.
		The Clyde coastguard spokesman said: "The body was discovered due to drainage of the canal for maintenance.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/scotland/4282303.stm (172 words)

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