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| | Trent & Mersey Canal |
 | | Then, most of their clay from Cornwall and flint from Sussex had to be shipped to Liverpool by boat, and then transported by horse-drawn wagons to the Potteries, making it expensive and time-consuming. |
 | | The decision was made to link the navigable River Trent to the River Mersey to overcome this difficulty, and the great engineer, James Brindley was commissioned to oversee the survey, the design and the construction. |
 | | It was to run from Preston Brook in the north, to Shardlow in the south, some 92 miles, intersecting at Fazeley (Birmingham) with the so-called "Grand Cross" of waterways linking the north-south and east-west estuaries of the Humber, the Mersey, the Thames and the Severn. |
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