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    The Trent and Mersey Canal is a 93+1⁄2-mile (150 km) canal in Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire in north-central England. It is a "narrow canal" for...
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    Worcestershire with the Trent and Mersey Canal at Haywood Junction by Great Haywood. James Brindley was the chief engineer of the canal, which was part of...
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    Caldon Canal is a branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal which opened in 1779. It runs 18 miles (29 km) from Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, to Froghall, Staffordshire...
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    through the towns of Macclesfield and Congleton, to an end-on junction with the Hall Green Branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal. There is a stop lock at the...
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    Trent and Mersey Canal. It also has connections with the Ashby Canal, the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal and the Oxford Canal. Some maps show the canal...
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    the Rochdale Canal in Manchester; to the Trent and Mersey Canal at Preston Brook, southeast of Runcorn; and to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Leigh. It...
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    Wardle Canal with the Trent and Mersey Canal, and the River Dee (in Chester). With two connections to the Trent and Mersey (via the Middlewich Branch and the...
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    Bronze Age and continuing through the Industrial Revolution, with the introduction of the Trent and Mersey Canal shaping the town's development and local industry...
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    Cannock and Uttoxeter. High Bridge crosses the River Trent on the edge of the village, carrying to the road to Mavesyn Ridware. The Trent and Mersey Canal skirts...
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    The Derby Canal ran 14 miles (23 km) from the Trent and Mersey Canal at Swarkestone to Derby and Little Eaton, and to the Erewash Canal at Sandiacre,...
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    Fradley Junction (category Trent and Mersey Canal)
    Mersey Canal. It opened in 1790, and several of the buildings around it, including The Swan public house, are grade II listed structures. The Trent and...
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  • England, retrieved 16 December 2022 Historic England, "Trent and Mersey Canal Weston Lock, Weston-on-Trent (1205858)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved...
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    The Wardle Canal is the shortest canal in the UK, at 154 feet (47 m). The canal, in Middlewich, Cheshire, connects the Trent and Mersey Canal to the Middlewich...
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    King's Mill, Castle Donington, Weston-on-Trent and Aston-on-Trent. At Shardlow, where the Trent and Mersey Canal begins, the river also meets the Derwent...
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    with a branch to Nantwich, but the Trent and Mersey Canal were unco-operative about a junction at Middlewich, and so the route to Nantwich was opened...
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    Shardlow (category Trent and Mersey Canal)
    and from the River Trent to the Trent and Mersey Canal, during its heyday from the 1770s to the 1840s it became referred to as "Rural Rotterdam" and "Little...
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    Union Canal is located in Cheshire, in the north west of England, and runs between Middlewich, where it joins the Trent and Mersey Canal, and Barbridge...
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    Hardings Wood Junction (category Trent and Mersey Canal)
    Branch) joins the Trent and Mersey Canal. It opened in 1831. The Trent and Mersey Canal was authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1766, and construction began...
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    River Trent at Soar Mouth, north of Ratcliffe-on-Soar. It is possible to continue to the Trent and Mersey Canal, Coventry Canal and North Oxford Canal, to...
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    a major canal navigation junction, where the River Soar and Erewash Canal can reach the Trent and Mersey Canal by way of the River Trent and adjacent...
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    James Brindley (category English canal engineers)
    to drive the tunnel. The Trent and Mersey Canal was the first part of this ambitious network, of which the later Chester Canal, started in 1772, was a...
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    The Trent and Mersey Canal runs between the village and the river. All Saints’ Church is Celtic. There are two public houses, the White Hart and The Malt...
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    Burleigh Pottery (category Companies based in Stoke-on-Trent)
    Trent and Mersey Canal, has a visitor centre and a factory shop. The business was established in 1851 at the Central Pottery in Burslem as Hulme and Booth...
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    The Newcastle-under-Lyme Canal was a 3 mile 6 furlongs (6 km) level canal from the Trent & Mersey Canal at Stoke-on-Trent to Newcastle-under-Lyme. It was...
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    canal connects with the Trent and Mersey Canal. The Trent and Mersey Canal links the River Trent at Derwent Mouth (in Derbyshire) to the River Mersey...
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    Burslem (category Areas of Stoke-on-Trent)
    River Trent. Burslem embraces the areas of Middleport, Dalehall, Longport, Westport, Trubshaw Cross, and Brownhills. The Trent & Mersey Canal cuts through...
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    been dismantled and there are plans to reinstate the canal. The Uttoxeter Canal was promoted by the Trent and Mersey Canal Company and authorised by an...
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    Anderton Boat Lift (category Trent and Mersey Canal)
    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 Heritage...
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    Four Counties Ring (category Canal rings in the United Kingdom)
    Branch) Shropshire Union Canal Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Trent and Mersey Canal The short Wardle Canal is normally now considered to be part of...
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    south side of the Trent and Mersey Canal south just outside of the market town of Rugeley and north of the city of Lichfield, and noteworthy for the...
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