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  • the Glory Hole, spanning the River Witham in Lincoln is the only British bridge which still has secular medieval buildings standing on it? (Edit)
  • funding for the initial restoration of the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal became available as a result of the National Parks legislation? (Edit)
  • Crofton Pumping Station on the Kennet and Avon Canal contains one of the oldest operational Watt style beam engines in the world, dating from 1812? (Edit)
  • the Anderton Boat Lift was converted from hydraulic to electric power in 1908, and from electric to hydraulic power in 2002? (Edit)
  • the Aust Ferry terminal was featured in a promotion for the Martin Scorsese film No Direction Home about the life of Bob Dylan? (Edit)
  • a narrowboat carrying coal on the Oxford Canal was drawn by a mule until 1958, and was the last horse-drawn freight narrowboat in Great Britain? (Edit)
  • an unusual feature of the Arbury Canals was a Triple Lock, which had a 'Y' shaped chamber, with two separate entrances from above, leading to different branches? (Edit)
  • the Selby Canal was built in 1774 by the Aire and Calder Navigation Company, to head off another proposal for a 23-mile (37 km) canal linking Leeds directly to Selby and thus bypassing the Aire altogether? (Edit)
  • the Civil Engineer John Smeaton, who worked on the Calder and Hebble Navigation and the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, also built the Eddystone Lighthouse, a water engine for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the first 5-sailed smock mill in Britain? (Edit)
  • the Worsley Navigable Levels consisted of 46 miles (74 km) of navigable tunnels, and included an underground inclined plane which was 453 feet (138 m) long and raised boats by 106.5 feet (32.5 m)? (Edit)
  • the Barton Swing Aqueduct carries the Bridgewater Canal across the Manchester Ship Canal, the swinging action allowing large vessels using the Ship Canal to pass underneath and smaller narrowboats to cross over the top? (Edit)
  • water supply problems on the Thames and Severn Canal were caused by springs breaking through the clay lining of the canal bed, leaving holes through which water was lost when the springs receded in summer? (Edit)
  • Queen Victoria visited the Manchester Ship Canal to perform the official opening on 21 May 1894, and knighted the mayor of Salford, William Henry Bailey and the lord mayor of Manchester, Anthony Marshall as part of the ceremony? (Edit)
  • after 1972, a major source of income for the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation was the sale of wood from the willows that grew on the banks for making cricket bats? (Edit)
  • fourteen of the 17 locks on the Aberdeenshire Canal failed within the first few weeks, and reconstruction of the masonry resulted in the canal being shut for nearly a year while the work was completed? (Edit)
  • The Andover Canal was never successful enough to pay a dividend to its shareholders until it closed in 1859, when income from the sale to the Andover & Redbridge Railway produced one? (Edit)
  • although the Anson Branch was authorised by the Birmingham Canal Act of 1768, it was not completed until 1830? (Edit)
  • about 190 yds (175m) of the Hollinwood Branch Canal have been refurbished as part of a £100 Million redevelopment scheme for Droylsden which includes housing, apartments, restaurants, shops and offices, all centred around a new marina which was opened in September 2008? (Edit)
  • the Ashton Canal was one of seven stretches of canal, formally designated as remainder waterways, which were re-classified by the British Waterways Act of 8 February 1983, and upgraded to Cruising Waterway Standard? (Edit)
  • the Barnsley Canal Transfer Act of 1871, which authorised the takeover of the canal by the Aire and Calder Navigation, also authorised them to replace ten of the twelve Walton locks by an inclined plane, and although these powers were renewed in 1889, no construction took place? (Edit)
  • the Baybridge Canal which ran for 3.5 miles (6 km) through two locks was built entirely within the parish of West Grinstead in the English county of Sussex? (Edit)
  • the locks on the Petworth Canal in Sussex were dismantled in 1826 so that the materials could be used to repair the locks on the Rother Navigation? (Edit)
  • the Foxton Inclined Plane Trust is campaigning for full restoration of the boat lift, and a £1.78 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund has funded preliminary restoration works on the site? (Edit)
  • Hall Green stop lock in Cheshire connects the Hall Green Branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal to the Macclesfield Canal, and was originally built as two end-to-end chambers, so that the level of either canal could be higher than the other? (Edit)
  • Gas Street Basin, located in the centre of Birmingham, England, where the Worcester and Birmingham Canal meets the BCN Main Line, featured prominently in the 1973 Cliff Richard film Take Me High? (Edit)
  • The Smethwick Engine, a steam pumping engine made by Boulton and Watt for the BCN Old Main Line in 1779, is now at the Thinktank science museum in Birmingham and is the oldest working engine in the world? (Edit)
  • the Underfall Yard, which is part of Bristol harbour, takes its name from the underfall sluices which were designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in the 1830s as a way of scouring mud from the harbour to maintain its depth? (Edit)
  • water levels on the River Little Ouse dropped when the sluice at Denver was built on the River Great Ouse, and improvements had to be made to the river to maintain navigation to Thetford? (Edit)
  • the first cargo carried on the Bristol Avon Navigation after its construction arrived in Bath in December 1727, and consisted of 'Deal boards, Pig-Lead and Meal'? (Edit)
  • improvements to the Prescott Channel in connection with the London 2012 Olympics uncoverered an unexploded World War II bomb, the largest ever found in central London? (Edit)
  • there were plans to widen Watford Locks, a group of seven locks on the Grand Union Canal close to Watford Gap service area on the M1 Motorway in 1929, and to replace them by an inclined plane in the early 20th century, but both schemes were abandoned? (Edit)
  • one unexpected possibility of cruising on the Witham Navigable Drains is to visit New York, a hamlet just to the north of Hough Bridge on the West Fen Drain? (Edit)
  • the River Wissey and the Wissington Light Railway were the only ways to reach Wissington sugar-beet factory, which was opened in 1925? (Edit)
  • below Prickwillow, the navigable River Lark flows along a channel in which the River Great Ouse formerly flowed in the opposite direction? (Edit)
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