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	Glamorganshire Canal
		The Glamorganshire Canal was a canal in Glamorgan, South Wales, UK, running from Merthyr Tydfil to Cardiff.
		The canal was completed in 1798 with the addition of a sea lock in Cardiff docks.
		The canal was around 25 miles (40 km) long, with a drop of around 542 feet (165 m) requiring 50 locks.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Glamorganshire_Canal (245 words)

	GENUKI: Glamorganshire by Samuel Lewis 1833 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		"GLAMORGANSHIRE, a maritime county of SOUTH WALES, bounded on the north by Brecknockshire, on the east by the English county of Monmouth, on the south by the Bristol channel, and on the west and north-west by the bay and county of Carmarthen.
		Besides the tram-roads, already noticed as connected with the canals, and the various branches diverging from them, the property of private individuals, there is one, five miles in length, which was formed at the commencement of the present century, connecting the limestone and marble quarries at the Mumbles with the port of Swansea.
		Glamorganshire is also intersected by a great number of good common roads, which afford easy and convenient communication between the different towns and villages, but are of little comparative importance in a commercial point of view.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/wal/GLA/Lewis1833Gla.html (7101 words)

	Glamorganshire Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The contractor for the project was Thomas Dadford, a pupil of the canal engineer James Brindley.
		The shares in the canal were bought in 1883 by the Marquess of Bute.
		The canal lost favour after the Taff Vale Railway opened, and the upper section suffered from the effects of mining subsidence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glamorganshire_Canal (214 words)

	The International Canal Monuments List - Part IIb - Individual Structures
		In a conventional bridge the arch is at right-angles to the canal and springs from a flat bed.
		The British canal network was notable for the extent of tunnelling needed to adequately serve the upland districts at the heart of the Industrial Revolution.
		The Kanawha Canal's Unfinished Division from Eagle Rock to Buchanan in Virginia was begun in 1851 and abandoned in 1856, leaving locks, culverts, aqueducts, and tunnels in an incomplete state.
	www.icomos.org /studies/canals2b.htm (7623 words)

	The Glamorgan Canal
		To lesson the expense of carrying iron goods to Cardiff by road, the Ironmasters sought permission of Parliament to build a canal between Merthyr and Cardiff, It was just over 25 miles in length, and would have a "fall" of over 510 feet.
		Construction of the Glamorganshire Canal was commenced in 1790.It was a difficult task, 50 locks had to be made, 16 of which were between Abercynon
		The first part, between Abercynon and Cardiff, known as "The Navigation", or "The Basin", was the easiest and was completed by 1794.It took another 4 years to complete the 9 miles between Abercynon and Merthyr.
	www.alangeorge.co.uk /the_glamorganshire_canal.htm (169 words)

	Glamorganshire Canal Tunnel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Nearly the whole length of the route of the former tunnel that took the canal through central Cardiff can be walked, and in several sections the current street/pedestrian level is similar to that of which the tunnel water level would have been at.
		The Glamorganshire Canal plots of land on both sides of Queen-street have been sold by the corporation to private developers so that it is not possible to drive a road through from the Civil Centre through to the docks.
		The remainder of the canal south of Queen-street is being filled in by the corporation with the object of further sales of land.
	www.soffa.dabsol.co.uk /sub/cardiff/canal.html (711 words)

	The Neath and Tennant Canals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Neath canal is almost 30 years older than the Tennant, being the second major canal undertaking in South Wales, the first being the Glamorganshire Canal which on 9 June 1790 was promoted by Act of Parliament.
		Boating on the canal is confined to those who can trail their boats, or to the public boat trips that are available either on the "Thomas Dadford", owned by the Neath and Tennant Canal Preservation Society, or the "Erlys Neath", belonging to West Glamorganshire County Council.
		The canal ran from Port Tennant harbour, at the mouth of the River Tawe, near Swansea, to Aberdulais Basin where in joins the Neath Canal immediately after crossing the River Neath, by means of the Aberdulais Aqueduct.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/The-Neath-and-Tennant-Canals.html (1211 words)

	Cardiff - LoveToKnow 1911
		CARDIFF, a city, municipal, county and parliamentary borough, seaport and market-town, and the county town of Glamorganshire, South Wales, situated on the Taff, 5 m.
		The Glamorganshire canal, opened in 1794, runs from Cardiff to Merthyr Tydfil, with a branch to Aberdare.
		The increase of the population of Cardiff during the 19th century was phenomenal; from 1870 inhabitants in 180r, and 6187 in 1831 it grew to 3 2,954 in 1861.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Cardiff (3056 words)

	Books: The Glamorganshire & Aberdare Canals Vol. 2 Pontypridd to Cardiff
		Whilst this second volume, by definition, deals mostly with the Glamorganshire Canal, there are chapters which are common to both canals — on aspects of maintenance, the boatmen, the locks and especially the boats.
		The Doctor’s Canal and Tramroad at Pontypridd is also covered in detail and there are chapters too on the Patent Fuel industry and the Glamorganshire Canal Railway.
		Both the Aberdare and the Glamorganshire canals have been largely obliterated but this two volume history now records their existence in great detail and brings them back to life in a way many thought would not be possible.
	www.lightmoor.co.uk /bdl045.htm (361 words)

	Books: The Glamorganshire and Aberdare Canals
		Whilst the Aberdare Canal mostly struggled throughout its 88 year existence, the Glamorganshire Canal which it fed into was, for a time, financially the most successful waterway in Britain.
		It qualifies as a contour canal, despite the fact it rose some 568 feet in its 25.5 mile length but Dadford's genius was not appreciated by his masters and he left the canal under a cloud.
		Covered are the inception and building of the canals; their architecture, bridges and water supply; the connecting tramroads; the traffic carried; and the ironworks, mines, quarries and other industries they served.
	www.lightmoor.co.uk /bdl010.htm (317 words)

	Aberdare Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		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)

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		The Hudderfield Narrow Canal amalgamated iwth the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway
		the Caldon Canal was reopened at a ceremony at Cheddleton Wharf
		the Hereford and Gloucester Canal from Ledbury to Hereford
	www2.mihalis.net /canal/data/today.xml (1638 words)

	Mountain Ash - LoveToKnow 1911
		MOUNTAIN ASH, an urban district of Glamorganshire, south Wales, in the Aberdare valley on the Cynon, a west bank tributary of the Taff, with stations on the Taff Vale and Great Western railways, 18 m.
		A branch of the Glamorganshire canal passes through the place.
		At the beginning of the 19th century Mountain Ash was a small village known only by its Welsh name of Aberpenar, but from 1850, with the development of its collieries, the population rapidly increased.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Mountain_Ash (268 words)

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		A private Bill was put forward in 1790, promoted by the ironmasters, Crawshay, Guest and Homfray, for the construction of the Glamorganshire Canal from Abercynon to Cardiff, with the intention of transporting iron in barges from the Dowlais, Cyfarthfa and Plymouth Works to the coast at Cardiff.
		The canal was built over the period 1792 to 1794 with the opening of the canal basin in 1798.
		The construction of the canal was responsible for the rapid exploitation of the mineral resources of the Taff Valley and led to the rise of Cardiff as a port.
	www.glamorganfamilyhistory.co.uk /CDFCANAL.html (760 words)

	Glamorganshire Canal: Waterscape.com
		Hundreds of boats plied the canal between Merthyr Tydfil and Cardiff, serving the local ironworks and coal mines.
		The canal eventually fell into disrepair, and roads, factories and housing estates were built over its course.
		Though highly unlikely ever to be restored, the canal is still easy for the walker or cyclist to discover.
	www.waterscape.com /Glamorganshire_Canal (143 words)

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		Objections were, of course, raised by the Glamorganshire Canal Co., and had to be paid compensation for their loss of traffic.
		The canal also continued in use and such was the traffic need that both the railway and the canal were in heavy use, with the canal company remaining highly profitable until the 1870s.
		The TVR skirted the town to the east of the town wall with its station on the Spital, the land of the old hospital at the end of what was then Crokerton (Crockherbtown), now Queen Street, and the offices of the company were built adjoining the station in 1860.
	www.angelfire.com /ga/BobSanders/CDFRLYS.html (570 words)

	Risca Industrial History Museum & OHIHS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The means of supplying water to the canal and aspects of general maintenance are discussed in the following chapters and this is followed by an in depth and well illustrated study of the boats and boatmen of the Glamorganshire and Aberdare Canals.
		The canal's route through Cardiff, now almost totally obliterated, is featured in great detail and also its terminus to the south of the main South Wales railway line, the Sea Lock pound, also now completely filled in.
		The Junction Canal connecting to the mighty Bute Docks is featured, whilst a separate chapter covers the little known Glamorganshire Canal Railway which served this small corner of Cardiff's Dockland.
	www.riscamuseum.org.uk /merchandise.html (554 words)

	Canal enthusiasts homepages
		George's Canal Boating in UK and Europe Being an introduction for those unfamiliar with the pleasures of canal and waterway cruising, as well as a resource for experienced boaters.
		Narrowboating on the UK Inland Waterways The Narrow Canals and Narrow Boats of the United Kingdom's Inland Waterways are linear heritage.
		Mike Clarke's canal pages Canals and canal boats, steam engines and vintage cars, water mills and wind mills, these have all been part of my work as a professional industrial and canal historian and restoration engineer.
	www.ukcanals.net /cehp.html (604 words)

	Stoke Bruerne, Grand Union Canal
		This is a canal village with few equals, the cottages and other buildings having their front doors on the canal, rather than back doors as is more usual, which gives it huge charm.
		The canal museum (left of picture), housed in a corn mill which closed in the early 20th century, opened in 1963.
		The southern portal of Blisworth Tunnel, which at 3076 yards (2.81km) long is the third-longest navigable canal tunnel in England after Standedge and Dudley (and the ninth-longest in the world).
	www.luphen.org.uk /public/2004/2004stokebruerne.htm (670 words)

	Glamorganshire Canal
		So the Ironmasters created The Glamorganshire canal to transport Iron from Merthyr to Cardiff by using trows which were boats which were pulled by horses on a towpath.
		Building the canal was a very difficult, every canal needs wharves, locks, bridges and aqueducts all the work was done by hand, there were no bulldozers.
		But by 1799 there were five other canals covering a total of 77 miles in south Wales, trade began to flourish.
	www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk /gp/html/oldmerthyr/page9.html (160 words)

	Nantgarw
		The Glamorganshire Canal was built to carry iron from Merthyr Tydfil to Cardiff along the Taff valley.
		It is supposed that he chose Nantgarw because he wanted to guard the secret of the manufacture of this porcelain, and because it was located on the route of the Canal.
		The china clay could be transported from Cardiff by canal and the finished china could be sent back to Cardiff for shipping to London.
	www3.telus.net /Rendezvous/Nantgarw.htm (786 words)

	Cilfynydd
		The canal continued alongside Cilfynydd Road passing the Cilfynydd Inn where horses could be stabled for the night.
		The canal skirted the village on its western side eventually arriving at Bodwenarth Quarries where boats might be loaded with stone, here too canal horses could be shod at the flsmith's which stood on the site later occupied by King's Garage.
		Until the early 1970s the route of the canal at Cilfynydd could still be clearly followed but these traces were swept away by the building of the A470.
	www.pontypriddmuseum.org.uk /cilfynydd_4.htm (500 words)

	General Warde's (Yspitty) Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Originally called the Gloucester and Berkley Canal its southern terminus was changed to Sharpness in 1818.
		Saul Canal Festival : Saul Canal Festival is the new title for what was once known as the Saul Junction Boat Gathering.
		Was an 11 mile level canal from Johnstone, Renfrewshire, to Port Eglinton on the upper Clyde.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/General-Wardes-Yspitty-Canal.html (1346 words)

	Cardiff's Bute Dock - the 1828 Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The report concluded that the sea-lock of the Glamorganshire Canal was inadequate.
		As chairman of the Glamorganshire Canal he prevented any improvement of the sea lock area, even though a number of his businessmen friends from Merthyr desperately wanted to rebuild the area.
		As the land owner, the marquis was equally reluctant to develop the sea lock area mainly because he was unsure of the success of the scheme.
	www.swanseahistoryweb.org.uk /cardiff/butewd/1828.htm (876 words)

	Travel in Wales
		A bill promoted by the iron masters was presented to Parliament in 1790 to allow the building of the Glamorganshire Canal.
		Building of canals was progressing all over Great Britain at this period at the turn of the 18th century.
		From its inception in 1794 the Glamorganshire Canal and its associated tram roads enabled the four companies to ship their produce away.
	www.swanseamass.org /history/wales/travel/travel3.html (1384 words)

	Dynea
		Meanwhile, the Glamorganshire Canal continued along what is now llan Avenue to reach the picturesque Lock Lewis at Gellidawel, Rhydyfelin.
		Boats used on the canal were usually 60ft long by 8ft wide and carried 20-24 tons of cargo.
		A steam-powered boat was used on the Pontypridd to Cardiff section of the canal in 1890 but its speed created too much wash and steam boats were not used generally until 1911.
	www.angelfire.com /ct2/beharu/dynea.htm (416 words)

	Welsh Icons - Abercynon
		The village was the terminus of the world's first steam railway journey when on 21 February 1804 the inventor Richard Trevithick drove a steam locomotive hauling both iron and passengers travelled from the Penydarren ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil to the basin of the Glamorganshire Canal at Abercynon.
		The village developed as a transport interchange being at the junction of the Merthyr and Aberdare branches of the Glamorganshire Canal and the Merthyr and Aberdare branches of the Taff Vale Railway.
		For a time it was known as "Navigation" and the Navigation Hotel, which was originally the headquarters of the Glamorganshire Canal, still bears this name.
	welshicons.org.uk /html/abercynon.html (321 words)

	British Isles- Specific Canals & Waterways
		Ashton Canal - Stockport Branch - infilled in 1962
		Beverley Beck Canal - flows from the River Hull near to the centre of the historic town of Beverley.
		Canals in Tameside (Peak Forest, Ashton, and Huddersfield Narrow) - from the Tameside Metropolitan Borough
	www.canals.com /biwaterway.htm (776 words)

	Bute West Dock - A chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The sea lock of the Glamorganshire Canal is opened.
		The Glamorganshire Canal is exporting 10,400 tons of iron a year from the sea lock.
		The Glamorganshire Canal is exporting 132,781 tons of iron a year from the sea lock.
	www.swanseahistoryweb.org.uk /cardiff/butewd/bdchron.htm (466 words)

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