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2. Anderton Boat Lift - Wikipedia

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   Anderton Boat Lift. The Anderton Boat Lift is a two- caisson lift lock near the village of Anderton, Cheshire, in North West England. It provides a 50-foot (15.2 m) vertical link between two navigable waterways: the River Weaver and the Trent and Mersey Canal. The structure is designated as a scheduled monument, and is included in the National ...

3. Leas Lift - Wikipedia

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   Opened. 1885. The Leas Lift is a grade II* listed funicular railway that carries passengers between the seafront and the promenade in Folkestone, Kent. Originally installed in 1885, it is one of the oldest water lifts in the UK. [1][2] The lift operates using water and gravity and is controlled from a small cabin at the top of the cliff. [3]

4. History of the British canal system - Wikipedia

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   The Anderton Boat Lift, the world's first commercially successful boat lift and until the opening of the Falkirk Wheel the only boat lift in the United Kingdom. Bingley Five Rise Locks, a staircase lock that is the steepest in the country. Burnley Embankment, an innovative solution to a canal crossing a wide valley.

5. Seafront lift to be restored thanks to £4.8m National Lottery ...

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   The Leas Lift in Folkestone, Kent, is one of only three remaining, Victorian, water balance cliff lifts left in the country. Seafront lift to be restored thanks to £4.8m National Lottery grant ...

6. Boat lift - Wikipedia

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   Boat lift. A boat lift, ship lift, or lift lock is a machine for transporting boats between water at two different elevations, and is an alternative to the canal lock. It may be vertically moving, like the Anderton boat lift in England, rotational, like the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland, or operate on an inclined plane, like the Ronquières ...

7. List of RNLI stations - Wikipedia

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   If more than one boat is provided they are sometimes stationed in separate buildings at different locations in the same town. Current RNLI boats fall into three broad groups: All weather lifeboats (ALBs): Mersey, Severn, Shannon, Tamar, and Trent. Inshore lifeboats (ILBs): D-class (IB1), Atlantic 85 and E-class. Hovercraft: H-class.