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Whiteboard See
also websites on EMAIL
: enquiries@shropshirecanals.co.uk Did I get it Right? I
haven’t physically checked every location since some are
on private land and I haven’t had time to seek permission, etc for
others. Plus when I went to visit Edgmond Lock the Water Authority guy was there and said
it had been filled in and wasn’t keen on me checking. So
if you know that my information on current status is wrong please email me as
above. |
1950 Britton Lock (Tony Clayton) 1976
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Acknowledgements Rather than re-invent the wheel, I have sometimes
taken the liberty of quoting from articles, etc written by other people in
this website. I hope they do not mind
as I like to think that history should be in the public domain. I would, however, like to acknowledge the
following especially. Charles Boyce Joseph Boughey Journal of the Railway & Canal Historical Society Peter Brown Richard Foxcroft Richard Morriss Shrewsbury & Newport Canal Trust Tony Clayton Waterways Journal And of course let us not forget the two men who
contributed so much to the creation of the canals in the first place –
William Reynolds and Thomas Telford.
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When I got interested in the canals of
Shropshire, I found that there was plenty of information but it took a lot of
searching in different places to find what I wanted. Mostly I wanted to know where the canals
went and what was left that I could go and see. This website hopefully solves that problem
by bringing the information together in one place. |
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Updates 20/11/11 - Ketley Canal & Wombridge Canal added 20/11/11 - trails added for Shrewsbury
& Newport Canals 21/11/11 - Shropshire Canal & Underground Canals added 23/11/11 - About
Canals page updated 26/11/11 - trail added for Trench
Branch & Wombridge Canal 26/11/11 - route page added
for Wombridge Canal 27/11/11 - route page added
for Shrewsbury & Newport Canals 02/12/11 - new page on Canal Pioneers added 06/12/11 - contact email
address added 07/12/11 - pioneer biography
added for Granville Leveson-Gower 11/12/11 – Leominster Canal added 13/12/11 - Eardington Canal added 13/12/11 - Birmingham &
Liverpool Junction Canal added 16/12/11 – Description of
Brierly Hill shafts and incline updated 30/12/11 – Montgomery Canal added 01/01/12 - Llangollen Canal added |
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