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Canals in England

  • Thames and Severn CanalIn 1783, Parliament passed an act to authorize a canal from the River Severn to Stroud. The bill became law on the 17th of April that year, granting the…
  • Bridgewater CanalFrancis Egerton, the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, owned coal mines in Worsley that supplied fuel for England's Industrial Revolution.
  • Canal ManiaThe Duke of Bridgewater opened his canal in 1761 to move coal from Worsley to Manchester. Construction costs were high, yet the price of coal in Manchester…
  • 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…
  • Leeds and Liverpool CanalMerchants in Bradford gathered at the Sun Inn on the 2nd of July 1766 to demand a waterway across the Pennines. They needed limestone for mortar and…