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	Trent and Mersey Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Trent and Mersey Canal is a canal linking the River Trent at Shardlow in Derbyshire to the River Mersey at Runcorn in Cheshire.
		The idea of a canal connection from the Mersey to the Trent ("The Grand Trunk") came from canal engineer James Brindley.
		The canal passes through the city of Stoke-on-Trent, where it formed an integral part of the 1986 National Garden Festival, the Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trent_and_Mersey_Canal (350 words)

	Staffordshire sites; Trent and Mersey Canal, Meaford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The canal is well used by pleasure craft and the towpath is popular with walkers and cyclists.
		The bridges, which cross the canal at regular intervals, have also been colonised by wall rue, hart's-tongue fern (which is uncommon in Staffordshire), ivy-leaved toadflax, herb robert and oxford ragwort.
		East of the canal and directly north of Mount Road an extensive bank on the edge of an otherwise improved pasture is scattered with mature beech and sycamore trees, beneath which there is a carpet of bluebell.
	www2002.stoke.gov.uk /museums/pmag/Nof_website1/sites/Staffordshire_pages/trent_and_mersey_canal_meaford.htm (535 words)

	River Trent & Trent Navigation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This new waterway was to have a junction and basin on the River Trent at West Stockwith.
		The Trent and Mersey Canal is never more than a mile away to the east and is often considerably closer, at one point the two waterways are separated only by the A34 dual-carriageway.
		Just ¼ of a mile north of the river, the Derby Canal also used to cross the Trent and Mersey Canal but when it became obvious to the owners of the Derby Canal that very few boats were using the Upper Trent Navigation, they closed the short section between the river and the canal.
	www.canals.btinternet.co.uk /canals/trentriver.htm (7456 words)

	Trent and Mersey Canal
		The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Act was passed at the same time as the Trent and Mersey Canal act - on the 14th May 1766 - and was completed by May 1772.
		A stretch of the Trent and Mersey from Wilden Ferry on the Trent to Stoke had also been completed at this time, which meant that Brindley saw two arms of his Grand Cross scheme completed before his death, linking the Potteries with the major ports of Bristol and Hull.
		The Trent and Mersey was completed and opened in 1777, five years after the completion date that Brindley had predicted and also five years after his death.
	jamesbrindley.tripod.com /trentandmerseycanal.html (423 words)

	Trent & Mersey Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was a masterpiece of engineering, one of the wonders of the canal age, but it caused the northern end of the Trent and Mersey to become virtually unused.
		Pleasure cruising was growing and this was reflected in the Government's decision to class the Trent and Mersey as a "Cruiseway" in the 1968 Transport Act.
		There are locks in both directions on the Trent and Mersey and a BW boat yard is on the far side just down from the pub.Directly opposite the pub is the junction onto the Coventry Canal.
	www.canals.btinternet.co.uk /canals/trentmersey.htm (7945 words)

	Chester Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 1772 - 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chester_Canal (157 words)

	CANNOCK CHASE - CANALS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The most important of these is the Trent and Mersey Canal which forms the north-eastern border, running through Lichfield, Handsacre and Rugeley to Haywood Junction on the northern edge of the Chase, wherefrom it proceeds northwards up the Trent Valley to the Potteries.
		This canal branched off the Trent and Mersey Canal on Fradley Heath and travelled south to Huddlesford, where it is joined from the west by the Wyrley and Essington Canal.
		The canal was constructed in 1792 to connect the Birmingham Canal near Wolverhampton with the Coventry and Fazeley Canal east of Lichfield, passing through Wednesfield, Bloxwich, Wyrley and Brownhills, on its journey.
	www.roman-britain.org /chase/_canals.htm (1951 words)

	IWA Individual Waterways - Trent & Mersey Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It connects with the River Trent, the Coventry Canal, the Caldon Canal, the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, the Burslem Branch, the Macclesfield Canal, the River Weaver and the Bridgewater Canal.
		Josiah Wedgwood played an important role in the development of this canal since he wanted a reliable means of transport for raw materials and finished goods to be delivered to and from his factory.
		The canal was completed in 1777 and was a success, carrying coal from the Staffordshire coalfields, salt from the Cheshire salt mines and beer from the breweries around Burton-on-Trent.
	www.waterways.org.uk /ind_waterways/trent (329 words)

	History by Waterway from Trent and Mersey Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Surveyed the Tees and proposed a canal from Stockton to Darlington and Staindrop to Winton with branches to the River Wear near Durham and the River Ure at Boroughbridge.
		He surveyed the canal again and recommended that much of the line proposed by the Act should be abandoned in favour of a route with a long tunnel further west which would "be attended with much advantage in point of saving considerable Expence, and upwards of one Mile and one quarter less in length".
		He met with the canal shareholders to discuss the possible conversion of the canal to a railway at the cost of £120,000.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/History25.html (3004 words)

	Chester Canal Root (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.btinternet.com /~canals/canals/chestercanalroot.htm (772 words)

	Trent & Mersey Canal
		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.
		The canal also passes through Middlewich, one of the three "wiches" of Cheshire (Northwich and Nantwich being the other two) - ("wich" is old English for "salt"), and was to be instrumental in improving the business fortunes of the county's salt mine owners.
		Locks are abundant on the canal, particularly the long haul up from Middlewich to Hardings Wood Junction, some 30-odd locks raising the canal nearly 300 feet, known by the 19th century navigators as "Heartbreak Hill".
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /transport/canals4.html (451 words)

	Stoke-on-Trent Museums - Theme Explorer
		Canals were among the most impressive - not to mention controversial - engineering enterprises of the 18th century.
		During 1808, the Trent and Mersey Canal Company was attempting to persuade the government that it should be exempt from paying the 'poor rates.'...
		A committee of subscribers to a scheme for a new canal are in uproar about the publication of a hand bill claiming to reflect their views.
	www.search.exploringthepotteries.org.uk /engine/theme?theme=247 (364 words)

	Trent and Mersey Canal - Paths, Routes and Trails - Information - Ramblers' Association
		One of Britain's principal canals, built 1770-77 and sometimes known as the Grand Trunk since it connects Derbyshire, the Potteries and Merseyside, with wide views across the Cheshire plain.
		The main line of the canal runs from Preston Brook via Northwich, Middlewich, Sandbach, Stoke on Trent, Rugeley and Burton upon Trent, passing to the south of Derby to end at Trent Lock, Long Eaton.
		Trent and Mersey Canal Map 1 Preston Brook to Fradley Junction, ISBN 0863510469.
	www.ramblers.org.uk /info/paths/trentandmerseycanal.html (226 words)

	DERBYSHIRE - LoveToKnow Article on DERBYSHIRE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The principal river is the Trent, which, rising in the Staffordshire moorlands, intersects the southern part of Derbyshire, and forms part of its boundary with Leicestershire.
		After the Trent the most important river is the Derwent, one of its tributaries, which, taking its rise in the lofty ridges of the High Peak, flows southward through a beautiful valley, receiving a number of minor streams in its course, including the Wye, which, rising near Buxton, traverses the fine Millersdale and Monsal Dale.
		The Trent and Mersey canal crosses the southern part of the county, and there is a branch canal (the Derby) connecting Derby with this and with the Erewash canal, which runs north from the Trent up the Erewash valley.
	www.1911ency.org /D/DE/DERBYSHIRE.htm (4371 words)

	Trent and Mersey Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Junction with Leek Branch - Trent and Mersey Canal
		Canal Settlement by D Iredale, Published by Leicester University PhD Thesis on history of community at Barnton, Cheshire, on the Trent & Mersey Canal, in the period 1775-1845.
		Canal Cruising : Canal Cruising is one of the oldest hire companies on the canals and after 50 years is still operated by the Wyatt family.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Trent-and-Mersey-Canal.html (2554 words)

	DERBYSHIRE - Online Information article about DERBYSHIRE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Erewash is the boundary stream between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
		canal crosses the southern part of the county, and there is a branch canal (the Derby) connecting Derby with this and with the Erewash canal, which runs north from the Trent up the Erewash valley.
		From it there is a little-used branch (the Cromford canal) to Matlock.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DEM_DIO/DERBYSHIRE.html (4287 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Plans had been made for a canal to join the Rivers Trent and Mersey as early as 1755, and rough surveys had been undertaken.
		Royal Assent for the Grand Trunk Canal (Trent and Mersey), was given by Act of Parliament in 1766.
		Further features of the Canal included four additional tunnels to help maintain the constancy of the level of the water, various major aqueducts transporting the Canal over rivers such as the Dove, Dane and Trent, and a number of lesser aqueducts numbering 160.
	www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk /canal.htm (683 words)

	Walk #569: Abbots Bromley to Stafford via Rugeley.
		The walk along the canal was flat and very straightforward, but I enjoyed watching the narrow boats go past and seeing the anglers sitting almost motionless as they watched patiently for the merest ripple on the surface of the water.
		The canal skirted the southern side of the village of Colwich, where I could hear the gunfire from the army ranges on Cannock Chase, before curving around to head northwards past the grounds of the magnificent Shugborough Hall.
		It proved to be a pleasant enough walk, although the canal was far less busy than the Trent and Mersey had been, and I only saw a couple of narrow boats moving as I walked along.
	www.britishwalks.org /walks/2003/569.php (1991 words)

	Trent & Mersey Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Trent and Mersey Canal begins, as you would expect, within a few miles of the River Mersey, near Runcorn and finishes in a junction with the River Trent in Derbyshire.
		The canal is known for its tunnels, at Harecastle, Barnton, Saltersford and Preston Brook.
		The tanks are raised by hydraulic rams which raise the water filled tanks and boats from the river to the canal fifty feet above.
	www.canaljunction.com /ctm.htm (561 words)

	Trent Canal -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is a port of entry on the Bay of Quinte, on the northern shore of Lake Ontario, and lies at the mouth of the Trent River and at the southern end of the Trent Canal system.
		A town in Staffordshire, England, Burton upon Trent is located mainly on the left bank of the River Trent and on the Grand Trunk (Trent and Mersey) Canal.
		Canals in The Netherlands as well as in other countries provide both drainage from the lowlands and transportation (see Netherlands, The).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9073303 (914 words)

	Waterways of Stoke-on-Trent
		The foremost thinker was Josiah Wedgwood who commissioned the local engineer James Brindley to create the Trent and Mersey Canal which enabled kaolin (china clay) to be brought from Cornwall right to the door of his Etruria factory.
		The Caldon Canal joins the Trent and Mersey at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, and was built to carry minerals from the uplands of the Peak District to the Potteries.
		The canal leaves the Trent and Mersey at Great Haywood and joins the River Severn at the 18th Century canal town of Stourport in the county of Hereford and Worcester.
	www.thepotteries.org /waterways (619 words)

	The 1997 Tour - page 15
		Trent and Mersey, Staffs and Worcs Canals and B.C.N Wolverhampton Flight.
		At the point where the canal meanders of to the south of Stafford the railway passes over.
		Etruria, the drydock on the junction peninsular between the Caldon and Trent and Mersey Canals.
	www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk /tour97/page15.html (1348 words)

	Jet 48 Magazine - Weekly news at RAF Lakenheath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The canal network enabled kaolin (china clay) to be transported from Cornwall right to the door of his factory at Etruria.
		Today the canal network is used mainly by tourists to explore the countryside from the tranquil waterways, and many miles can be covered this way.
		The Caldon Canal joins the Trent and Mersey at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, and was originally built to carry minerals from the Peak District to the potteries.
	www.lakenheath.af.mil /Jet48/2002Folders/083101/community2.htm (645 words)

	Armitage - Trent & Mersey Canal
		Armitage is a village situated along side of the River Trent, on the south side of the Trent and Mersey Canal, five miles NNW of Lichfield and two and a half miles ESE of Rugeley.
		Above Left: The Church, is dedicated to St John the Baptist, and was built in 1160 in Romanesque style on a rocky eminence.
		Subsidence due to coal mining from the nearby Lea Hall colliery required the tunnel to be opened out and the canal banks to be concrete lined.
	www.joe.shakespeare.btinternet.co.uk /armitage.htm (328 words)

	sites; Trent & Mersey Canal, Barlaston 1998 survey page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A stretch of the Trent and Mersey canal which lies within Barlaston County Parish.
		The canal is flanked by a mature line of standards and scrub on both banks, the only interruptions in these boundaries are where local houses have gardens which back onto the canal.
		A small number of wetland herbs are still present along this side of the canal, though they are confined to very small localised strips.
	www2002.stoke.gov.uk /museums/pmag/Nof_website1/sites/pages/trent_and_mersey_barlaston_1998_survey1.htm (263 words)

	Updates to The Trent and Mersey Canal
		The maximum beam between Trent Junction and Burton is shown as 10ft but appears to be in error.
		Chapel Farm Marina is a new facility, on the north side of the canal between the bridge and the floodgates.
		The entrance is a difficult narrow bridge, perpendicular to the main line of the canal and largely obscured by bushes.
	www.waterwaysguides.co.uk /updates/tandm.htm (2061 words)

	IWA Individual Waterways - Caldon Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Caldon Canal leaves the Trent and Mersey Canal at Etruria Junction and travels through the heart of the once-industrialised Potteries before heading up into the Staffordshire Moorlands.
		It is worth noting that at the current time local IWA members consider that the gauge is approximately 4 inches/ 100mm on the pessimistic side (discussions ongoing with BW), so if it is a close fit on the gauge your boat will probably fit through the tunnel with no problem.
		This part of the Trent and Mersey system was built to carry limestone from the quarries around Froghall and the remains of many limestone kilns can still be seen in the area.
	www.waterways.org.uk /ind_waterways/caldon (462 words)

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