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    The Exeter Ship Canal, also known as the Exeter Canal is a canal leading from (and beside) the River Exe to Exeter Quay in the city of Exeter, Devon,...
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    canalised for boat traffic. The Exeter Ship Canal was completed in 1567. The Sankey Canal was the first British canal of the Industrial Revolution, opening...
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    14 September 2013. Exeter history by www.exeter.gov.uk, .pdf file Exeter Ship Canal, The First Four Hundred Years Archived 19 September 2015 at the Wayback...
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  • House Cathedral Close Custom House Exeter Guildhall Exeter Quayside Exeter Ship Canal Exeter War Memorial HM Prison Exeter Met Office Northernhay Gardens...
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    Alicante but stopping the Naples and Luqa flights. The Exeter Canal, also known as the Exeter Ship Canal, was first constructed by John Trew in about 1566...
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    Exeter Quay, also known as Exeter Quayside, is a part of the city of Exeter next to the River Exe and the Exeter Ship Canal. It was first used as a port...
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    Exminster is a village west of the Exeter ship canal and River Exe in Devon, England, 6 km (3.7 mi) south of Exeter, with a population of 4,379 at the...
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    soon afterwards started the demise of the canal. The canal was rescued from bankruptcy by the Bristol and Exeter Railway in 1866. Despite commercial traffic...
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    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)...
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    Prior to the construction of the canal, there had been several plans over the previous 50 years to build a ship canal from the Bristol Channel to the English...
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    at Exeter Quay, particularly of the woollen cloth industry. Though the quay had existed since Roman times, the construction of the Exeter Ship Canal in...
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  • City of Exeter, who feared it would compete with the Exeter Canal for transportation of coal, was eventually softened; and the Grand Western Canal Act 1796...
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    Countess Wear (category Areas of Exeter)
    was owned by the Earls. The bridges over the river and the adjacent Exeter Ship Canal were for many years a traffic bottleneck, until the completion of...
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    Nuoli-class gunboat (category Ships of the Finnish Navy)
    Engineering Ltd, berthed on the Exeter Ship Canal, UK. A team travelled to Finland to prepare Nuolli 11 for her journey to Exeter. "This involved stripping...
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    the ship spent most of 1941 on convoy escort duties before she was transferred to the Far East after the start of the Pacific War in December. Exeter was...
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    Riverside Valley Park. Between the River Exe and Exeter Ship Canal, one mile downriver from Exeter Quay, lying between Clapperbrook Lane in the north-west...
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    just outside Exeter, in the south-west of England, where two bridges similar to their objectives were found over the Exeter Ship Canal.[citation needed]...
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    from Exeter, also shared in growth. The Exeter Ship Canal had been built in the sixteenth century to alleviate this problem, but use of the canal was inconvenient...
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    Weir was proposed, but there were fears that this would affect the Exeter Ship Canal and the plans were shelved. Instead the coal-fired power station was...
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    disbanded. 1556 – Society of Merchant Adventurers incorporated. 1564 – Exeter Ship Canal construction begins. 1593 – Guildhall rebuilt. 1595 – Michael Harte...
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    puddling to fracture meant that it was sold to the Bristol and Exeter Railway. They used the canal to transport materials for the construction of the new Somerset...
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    Exeter St Davids railway station is the principal and largest railway station in Exeter, also the busiest station in Devon. It is 193 miles 72 chains...
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  • of Westminster in London, England USNS Adelphi, a U.S. Navy ship Adelphi Canal, former canal in Derbyshire, England All pages with titles beginning with...
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    The Mayor of Exeter, granted Lord Mayor of Exeter in 2002, is the Mayor of Exeter in the ceremonial county of Devon, England and is elected by and from...
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    SS America (1939) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    the movement of ships and military defense preparations at the Panama Canal, observed and reported defense preparations in the Canal Zone, and met with...
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    centre and the quays on the Exeter Canal. Until 1862 tickets were only sold between St Thomas and stations west of Exeter, not to St Davids and the north...
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    HMS Ajax (22) (category Naval ships of Operation Neptune)
    Nassau at the time, was ordered to Trinidad. Exeter, which was about to depart Bermuda for the Panama Canal, was also ordered to Trinidad on the 21st. Ajax...
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  • Thumbnail for Bristol and Exeter Railway
    The Bristol and Exeter Railway (B&ER) was an English railway company formed to connect Bristol and Exeter. It was built on the broad gauge and its engineer...
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  • navigable waterway, aqueduct, canal, navigation, river or port. These include: narrow canals, broad canals, or ship canals rivers which have been made navigable...
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    suburbs of Exeter along a stone viaduct on which is situated Exeter St Thomas railway station. On the left a short line went down to the Exeter Canal at City...
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