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This is a route-map template for the Bridgewater Canal, a UK waterway.. For a key to symbols, see {{waterways legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
A map from 1801 showing the Bridgewater and Rochdale canals yet to be connected The Packet House at Worsley, in 1866 Letter to the Bridgewater Canal offices concerning wives sleeping on boats, dated 11 November 1837. Upon completion of the Rochdale Canal in 1804, the two canals were joined at Castlefield.
Robert Dibble (1882–1963), England rugby player, was born in Bridgwater, and played club rugby for Bridgwater & Albion RFC and Newport RFC. [183] Charles Kent (1953–2005), England rugby player, was born in Bridgwater. [184] David Luckes (b. 1969), England and Great Britain hockey player 1989–2000, was brought up in Bridgwater. [185]
The canals of the United Kingdom are a major part of the network of inland waterways in the United Kingdom. They have a varied history , from use for irrigation and transport , through becoming the focus of the Industrial Revolution , to today's role of recreational boating .
Map showing canals of the British Isles. Canals in orange, rivers in blue, streams in grey. Map of the current, leisure oriented system. The following list of canals in the United Kingdom, includes some systems that are navigable rivers with sections of canal (e.g. Aire and Calder Navigation) as well as "completely" artificial canals (e.g. Rochdale Canal).
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Ashton Canal at Droylsden. The Cheshire Ring is a canal cruising circuit or canal ring, which includes sections of six canals in and around Cheshire and Greater Manchester in North West England: the Ashton Canal, Peak Forest Canal, Macclesfield Canal, Trent and Mersey Canal, Bridgewater Canal and Rochdale Canal.
An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Bridgewater and Taunton Canal Navigation to continue the Line of the Canal below the Town of Bridgewater, and for varying the Powers of the several Acts relative to the said Canal. Citation: 7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. xi: Dates; Royal assent: 21 April 1837: Text of statute as originally enacted