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1304:. c. 56), was obtained on 8 April 1762, amending the earlier act, and was entitled "An Act to amend and render more effectual, an Act made in the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, for making navigable Sankey Brook, in the county of Lancaster, and for the extending and improving the said Navigation".
1428:. c. l), granted on 29 May 1830, entitled "An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to the Sankey Brook Navigation, in the county of Lancaster; and to make a New Canal from the said Navigation at Fidler's Ferry, to communicate with the River Mersey at Widness Wharf, near West Bank, in the township of Widnes, in the said county".
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railway viaduct over the Sankey Canal in Great Sankey, known locally as the "Nine Arches" was completed in 1830. It is still in use and carries the intercity
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An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to the Sankey Brook
Navigation, in the County of Lancaster; and to make a Navigable Canal from the said Navigation at Fidler's Ferry, to communicate with the River Mersey at Widness Wharf, near Westbank, in the Township of Widness, in the said
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An Act for making navigable the River or Brook called Sankey Brook, and the Three several
Branches thereof, from the River Mersey, below Sankey Bridges, up to Boardman's Stone Bridge on the South Branch, to Gerrard's Bridge on the Middle Branch thereof, and to Penny Bridge on the North Branch
1317:, dated 26 June, John Smith's "vessel heavily laden with copper slag, passed along the Sankey Canal ... by the application of steam only ... it appears, that the vessel after a course of 10 miles , returned the same evening to St Helens whence it had set out". The boat was powered by a
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As the title of the act states, in addition to the mainline between the Mersey and Parr, three branches were built to nearby collieries: the South Branch to
Boardman's Stone Bridge, Parr; the Middle Branch to Gerrard's Bridge; and the North Branch to Penny Bridge.
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An Act to amend, and render more effectual, an Act made in the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of His late
Majesty King George the Second, for making navigable Sankey Brook, in the County of Lancaster; and for the extending and improving the said
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Cheshire and Liverpool, the final traffic on the Sankey Canal was very different, and in the opposite direction, consisting of raw sugar for the Sankey Sugar Works at Earlestown,
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and involved in many canal projects of the period, had proposed a link from the Sankey, via an aqueduct across the Mersey, to the
Bridgewater Canal and the Mersey and Irwell Navigation, but this was never implemented.
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2461:Ribble Link
2451:Pocklington
2446:Peak Forest
2321:Grand Union
2246:Bridgewater
1584:Restoration
1509:, led to a
1479:North Wales
1439:John Rennie
1410:29 May 1830
1258:Navigation.
1099:Newry Canal
1087:Henry Berry
747:A57 bridge
647:Hulme Lock
607:M62 bridge
134:Connects to
118:Start point
105:Date closed
89:Date of act
83:Henry Berry
2815:Categories
2436:Nottingham
2426:Montgomery
2386:Llangollen
2286:Chichester
2200:Navigable
1702:References
1619:Structures
1488:Earlestown
1377:Long title
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1041:Warrington
2801:canalised
2381:Limehouse
2366:Lancaster
2311:Foss Dyke
2301:Droitwich
2296:Driffield
2089:cite book
1446:Operation
1199:28 Geo. 2
1162:28 Geo. 2
1095:Liverpool
1025:St Helens
587:Hey Lock
284:St Helens
129:St Helens
126:End point
113:Geography
39:in Widnes
2693:Features
2626:Scotland
2501:Sleaford
2471:Rochdale
2331:Grantham
2291:Coventry
2068:26 March
1745:Archived
1724:Archived
1655:See also
1498:for the
1490:, where
1388:Citation
1302:2 Geo. 3
1269:2 Geo. 3
1264:Citation
1157:Citation
1072:iron ore
2306:Erewash
2209:England
1575:Closure
1562:galligu
1550:arsenic
1543:arsenic
1523:Haydock
1382:County.
1271:. c. 56
1076:Haydock
1058:History
1027:to the
66:History
2705:Basins
2551:Weaver
2481:Sankey
2441:Oxford
2391:Lydney
2226:Ashton
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2001:4 June
1554:Widnes
1475:Weaver
1471:Irwell
1395:. c. l
1339:Widnes
1164:. c. 8
1049:Sutton
1037:Widnes
184:Legend
58:Status
2797:Notes
2715:Rings
2710:Locks
2657:Wales
2516:Stort
2486:Selby
2466:Ripon
1918:9 May
1892:7 May
1519:Leigh
1517:near
1400:Dates
1276:Dates
1169:Dates
1066:from
50:Locks
2261:Bude
2127:ISBN
2108:ISBN
2095:link
2070:2009
2045:ISBN
2026:ISBN
2003:2022
1920:2009
1894:2009
1648:lock
1634:The
1627:The
1556:and
1527:Parr
1525:and
1473:and
1185:The
1064:coal
1045:Parr
1004:The
108:1963
100:1757
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