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	Sankey Canal
		In 1762, the canal was extended from Sankey Bridges to Fiddler's Ferry, to improve locking down to the river Mersey, and in 1775 it was extended into St Helens.
		The Sankey Canal was taken over by the St Helens Railway Company, to form the St Helens Canal and Railway Company, and after 1845 it generally became known as the St Helens Canal.
		Although the canal was principally built to carry coal down its length, the last bulk traffic to be carried on it was in the opposite direction.
	www.pittdixon.go-plus.net /sankey/sankey.htm (1477 words)

	Sankey Canal - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Sankey Canal, also known as the Sankey Brook Navigation and St Helens Canal, was a canal in the north-west of England, originally from the mouth of the Sankey Brook at the River Mersey, along the valley of the Sankey Brook to St Helens.
		The canal was open and carrying coal by 1757: carriage of all goods was charged at 10d (ten old pence – approximately £0.042) per ton.
		The Sankey was built for Mersey Flats, the common sailing craft of the local rivers - the River Mersey, River Irwell, and River Weaver - and the Lancashire and North Wales coasts.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Sankey_Canal (907 words)

	Great Sankey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		There was industrial growth along the banks of the Sankey Canal at Sankey Bridges during the 19th century but otherwise the area was rural.
		Great Sankey was until recently the only village in the United Kingdom to have a Church, a Post Office, a Pub and a Police Station, each situated on all four corners of a crossroads.
		Sankey station is on the Liverpool to Manchester line and served by an hourly service of stopping trains run by First North Western.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Sankey (355 words)

	Encyclopedia: Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Canal du Midi, Toulouse The Canal du Midi is a 240km long canal in southern France, le midi, linking the Garonne River to the Mediterranean Sea, between Toulouse and the Mediterranean port of SÃ¨te, which was created for the canal.
		The construction of the canal was one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken; it has had an enormous impact on shipping, because it removes the need for ships to travel the long and treacherous route via the Drake Passage and Cape Horn at the southernmost tip of South America.
		Canals are so deeply identified with Venice that many canal cities have been nicknamed "the Venice of..." The city is built on marshy islands, with wooden piles supporting the buildings, so that here it is not so much the waterways which are man-made, as the land.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Canal (717 words)

	Sankey Brook Navigation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Thus far the Sankey Brook Navigation consisted of 8 single locks and a double staircase lock, all bridges were swing bridges and boats were mainly sailed along the route or hauled by gangs of men.
		The canal ended at a lock which dropped the route into Sankey Brook which in turn ran into the River Mersey.This had become very inconvenient for boats entering and leaving the canal as the tides at Sankey Bridges were very unreliable.
		Sankey Brook is still parallel to the canal as both pass under the A57 and into Sankey Bridges.
	www.btinternet.com /~canals/canals/sankeybrook.htm (5845 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sankey Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Bridgewater Canal is a canal in North West England, near Manchester.
		The resulting Bridgewater Canal, opened in 1761, is often regarded as the first British canal of the modern era (though the Sankey Canal has a good claim to that title), and was a major technical triumph.
		In England the Sankey Canal in Lancashire, connecting to the River Mersey, was built between 1757 and 1773.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sankey-Canal (2528 words)

	Wallpaper for your Computer Desktop from Pennine Waterways - canal and waterway images - background photographs
		The Springs Branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Skipton.
		The Packet House, Worsley, on the Bridgewater Canal.
		Prestolee Aqueduct on the Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal.
	www.penninewaterways.co.uk /wallpaper (344 words)

	Port Cities: - Canals in the Liverpool area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Canals are man-made waterways designed to improve transport links for both people and cargoes from the early 18th century onwards.
		Canals were very important to the development of the port of Liverpool because they were used to transport imports and exports to and from its docks.
		The Leeds - Liverpool Canal - stretching across the Pennines from Leeds in the north-east of England to Liverpool in the north-west of England opened throughout in 1816.
	www.mersey-gateway.org.uk /server.php?show=ConWebDoc.627 (381 words)

	IWA Library - Waterways November 2002 - Restoration News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The former canal basin Is now filled in, but BW and the Cotswold Canals Restoration Partnership plan to re-establish the canal at Brimscombe Port as part of the £82million project to restore the 36 miles of waterway that make up the Cotswold Canals.
		Most of the adjacent 3.5 miles of the canal to the south, as far as the A272 bridge is already restored or being worked on, so that the Trust plans to have a six-mile length of the canal open within the near future.
		Canal Volunteers from London WRG and KESCRG rebuilding the chamber of the lock at the western end of the summit pound of the Wilts and Berks Canal, near Wootton Bassett, during a recent joint work party weekend.
	www.waterways.org.uk /library/waterways_mag/2002/nov/restoration.htm (1920 words)

	History by Waterway from River Stour (Kent) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		He estimated the upgraded plan as £155,207 of which £94,178 was for the harbour and wet dock, £54,042 for the barge canal and branch, and £6,987 for the approach road to the basin at Canterbury.
		He surveyed the line of the proposed canal, which was to take water from the Irwell and return it to the navigable part of the river.
		As canal engineer he was instructed to make out 'the allotments and alterations of the Wharfs and communication with the Tramroad required by the Oystermouth Tramroad Act'.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/History24.html (2770 words)

	Sankey Navigation ( The first canal ) :: Newton le Willows :: Newton-Le-Willows.com - My Local Web - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		A similar project was envisioned for the Sankey Brook to St Helens, but Henry Berry (1720-1812) ran his 10-mile Sankey Canal beside the river, but independently of it.
		But although the Sankey was a canal in every sense of the word, at the time it was not considered a true canal because, to simplify the passage of its authorising bill through parliament, its builders described it as a canalised river, claiming they planned to widen, deepen and make navigable the adjacent Sankey Brook.
		For much of its career, the Sankey, which was built wide enough and deep enough to accommodate the substantial Mersey Flats, carried coal from the mines around St Helens to the chemical works which were springing up along its course, notably at Widnes.
	n-le-w.co.uk /print.php?sid=28&POSTNUKESID=f69116482949cc6d5d3f9377f... (620 words)

	A Fishing Directory - fishseekers.com ... Boating:Canals:Organizations
		The Cotswold Canals Trust is restoring the Stroudwater Navigation and Thames and Severn Canal for the benefit of the public.
		The Derby and Sandiacre Canal Society mission is to fully restore the Derby Canal as close as possible to the original route, within 10 years.
		Aims are preserving the line of the canal, the immediate restoration for multi-purpose recreation of all parts of the canal which remain in water, the eventual restoration of the whole canal to full navigable standard and to foster interest in the canal.
	www.fishseekers.com /search/Boating/Canals/Organizations (440 words)

	BRIDGEWATER - LoveToKnow Article on BRIDGEWATER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The navigable canal from Worsley to Manchester which he projected for the transport of the coal obtained on his estates was (with the exception of the Sankey canal) the first great undertaking of the kind executed in Great Britain in modern times.
		Both these canals were completed when the duke was only thirty-six years of age, and the remainder of his life was spent in extending them and in improving his estates; and during the latter years of his life he derived a princely income from the success of his enterprise.
		Though the last of the peers died in 1857, one of the commoners survived till the i9th of October 1883, and consequently the trust did not expire till the I9th of October 1903, when the whole property passed under the undivided control of the earl of Ellesmere.
	2.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BR/BRIDGEWATER.htm (603 words)

	Sankey Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Sankey was built for Mersey Flats, the sailing craft of the local Rivers - the Mersey, Irwell, and Weaver - and theLancashire and North Wales coasts.
		The Canal, however, remained largely in water right up into the centre of St Helens,although its terminus had been truncated in 1898, when Canal Street was built over it.
		The Sankey’s immediate commercial success, followed soon after by that of the Bridgewater, led to a mania of canalbuilding, and for extension schemes for the Sankey.
	www.therfcc.org /sankey-canal-263641.html (401 words)

	Sankey Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Canal which was cut subsequently was carrying coal by 1757, making the Sankey England’s First Canal of the Industrial Revolution.
		The Sankey was built to bring coal down to the growing chemical industries of Liverpool.
		The Sankey was built for Mersey Flats, the sailing craft of the local Rivers - the Mersey, Irwell, and Weaver - and the Lancashire and North Wales coasts.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/sankey_canal (481 words)

	IWA Library - Waterways May 2003 - Restoration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The cause is being reviewed by the council and options for the future treatment, repair, further development and restoration of the canal are being considered and discussed with other organisations and interest groups, including the Sankey Canal Restoration Society and local anglers.
		Plans to build the ski centre, which had potentially blighted restoration of the canal, were abandoned last May. The 'urban village' scheme would be centred on the restoration of the canal, and feature a Castlefield-style mix of canalside apartments, offices, bars and restaurants.
		Chesterfield Canal Trust has made it clear that it strongly objects to these proposals and wants a meeting with and assurances from Yorkshire Forward that future restoration of the canal will be accommodated.
	www.waterways.org.uk /library/waterways_mag/2003/may/restoration.htm (2196 words)

	History of the Sankey or St Helens Canal
		The Sankey Canal was originally known as the Sankey Brook Navigation and later as the St Helens Canal.
		The canal was constructed with broad locks to accommodate the traditional Mersey "flats" or sailing barges that already plied the Mersey.
		The Sankey Canal Restoration Society (SCARS) was formed in 1985 to try to prevent further deterioration and begin restoration.
	www.penninewaterways.co.uk /sankey/sa2.htm (1166 words)

	Pennine Waterways - Canals of the South Pennines - UK canal information, history, photographs, virtual cruise
		The Leeds and Liverpool Canal's Upper Foulridge Reservoir is being re-furbished.
		The programme of canal stoppages to enable repairs to be carried out has been announced.
		The Rochdale Canal at Castleton is to re-open on 6th June.
	www.penninewaterways.co.uk (618 words)

	History of canals in Great Britain
		There were two concentrated periods of canal building, from 1759 to the early 1770's and from 1789 to almost the end of the eighteenth century.
		Canals were built to serve the heavy industry of the north and midlands and whilst London had industry and the country's major port, it did not have coal mines and the surrounding south east of England was mainly agricultural.
		It was not until 1793 that an Act was passed to authorise the Grand Junction Canal from Braunston on the Oxford Canal, to Brentford on the river Thames west of London.
	www.canalmuseum.org.uk /history/ukcanals.htm (694 words)

	The Inland Waterways Association - Waterway Societies - S (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The major objective of the Society is the restoration of the Sankey Canal to navigable standards from St Helens to the River Mersey at Widnes.
		The Saltisford Arm is all that remains of the Warwick terminus of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal.
		This comprises the Newport branch of the Shropshire Union Canal from Norbury Junction to Wappenshall and the Shrewsbury Canal from Wappenshall to Shewsbury.
	www.waterways.org.uk /watsoc/watsocS.htm (1514 words)

	Limestone - The Bugsworth Legacy
		The canal to Cromford never materialised but in its place a scheme to extend the Ashton Canal eastward from Dukinfield to exploit the limestone deposits in the White Peak was receiving serious consideration.
		A direct canal connection between Bugsworth and Castlefield was still denied to the canal company and it had to wait a little longer for this.
		The canal and tramway was subject to the laws of the market place and had become a victim of new technology.
	www.brocross.com /iwps/pages/lime.htm (10211 words)

	Sankey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Opened in 1757 it was the country's first true canal and was responsible for shaping the valley, it's environment and development from the late 18th Century to the early 20th Century.
		With the advent of the railways began the long decline of the canals but it was not until 1963 that the Sankey canal was officially closed.
		Today the local authorities of Warrington, St. Helens and Halton along with the Sankey Canal Restoration Society (SCARS), are developing the Sankey Canal Trail as a 15 mile greenway, whilst working towards the restoration of a navigation route.
	www.warrington.gov.uk /entertainment/heritage/parks/sankey (574 words)

	Sankey Now - Summer 1996
		Sankey Brook and its tributaries drain an area of around 360km of highly developed urban and industrial land.
		These are often based upon linked open spaces alongside the borough's water courses and canal system, The council's planning policies seek to promote public access and recreational use of these greenways and to safeguard and promote their wildlife and historical features.
		As a member of the Sankey NOW Steering Group, Groundwork St.Helens, Knowsley and Sefton are pleased to support the initiative, and its aims and objectives.
	www.merseyworld.com /sankey (1693 words)

	LANCASHIRE - LoveToKnow Article on LANCASHIRE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Leeds and Liverpool canal, begun in 1770, Connects Liverpool and other important towns with Leeds by a circuitous route of 130 m.
		The other principal canals are the Rochdale, the Manchester (to Huddersfield) and the Lancaster, connecting Preston and Kendal.
		the Bridgewater canal from Worsley to Salford and across the Irwell to Manchester, and before the end of the century the county was intersected by canals.
	www.87.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LA/LANCASHIRE.htm (6859 words)

	math lessons - Sankey Canal
		The Sankey Canal, also known as the St Helens Canal was the first canal built in England during the Industrial Revolution.
		The act authorizing the construction of the canal was passed in 1755, and the canal was open and carrying coal by 1757.
		Apart from early extension (1762 - to Fiddlers Ferry from Sankey Bridges, for better locking into the River, and 1775 - to St Helens itself) the only major change came in 1832, when, to meet Railway competition, an extension was built down to new locks at Widnes.
	www.mathdaily.com /lessons/Sankey_Canal (534 words)

	Ribble Link Trust Ltd.: Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The London Canal Museum - see inside a narrowboat cabin, learn about the history of London's canals, about the cargoes carried, the people who lived and worked on the waterways, and the horses that pulled their boats.
		Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal Society - formed in 1987 with the aims of preserving the line of the canal, the immediate restoration for multi-purpose recreation of all parts of the canal which remain in water and the eventual restoration of the whole canal to full navigable standard.
		Sankey Canal Restoration Society - Aims to achieve the full restoration of the Canal.
	www.clegg.fsnet.co.uk /links.html (1145 words)

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