Leeds Liverpool Canal Unchanged for 200 years
by Brenda Kean
Title
Leeds Liverpool Canal Unchanged for 200 years
Artist
Brenda Kean
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Canal Boats at the 200 year celebration of the Leeds Liverpool Canal at Burnley Lancashire
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a canal in Northern England, linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool. Over a distance of 127 miles (204 km), it crosses the Pennines, and includes 91 locks on the main line. It has several small branches, and in the early 21st century a new link was constructed into the Liverpool docks system.
At Burnley, rather than using two sets of locks to cross the shallow Calder valley, Whitworth designed a 1,350 yards (1,234 m) long and up to 60 feet (18 m) high, embankment. It would also require another 559 yards (511 m) tunnel nearby at Gannow and a sizeable cutting to allow the canal to traverse the hillside between the two. It took 5 years to complete this work
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February 10th, 2017
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