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Canals in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan

  • Bridgewater CanalFrancis Egerton, the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, owned coal mines in Worsley that supplied fuel for England's Industrial Revolution.
  • 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…