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Canals in Cheshire

  • Bridgewater CanalFrancis Egerton, the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, owned coal mines in Worsley that supplied fuel for England's Industrial Revolution.
  • Manchester Ship CanalIn 1660, a proposal emerged to make the rivers Mersey and Irwell navigable from the Irish Sea to Manchester. Thomas Steers revived this idea in 1712, leading…