List of canal tunnels in the United Kingdom
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This is a list of canal tunnels in the United Kingdom.
Listed by name
An adit is a horizontal entrance to a mine:
Tunnel | Canal | Length | Designer | Coordinates | Notes | Image |
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Hollingwood Common Tunnel | Chesterfield Canal | |||||
Worsley Navigable Levels | Bridgewater Canal | 53°30′2.2″N 2°22′52.2″W / 53.500611°N 2.381167°W | Greater Manchester |
Listed by canal
Grand Union Canal
- Blisworth Tunnel, Northamptonshire
- Braunston Tunnel, Northamptonshire
- Crick Tunnel, Northamptonshire
- Husbands Bosworth Tunnel, Leicestershire
- Saddington Tunnel, Leicestershire
- Shrewley Tunnel, Warwickshire
Peak Forest Canal
Regent's Canal
Union Canal (Scotland)
- Falkirk Tunnel, Falkirk
- Roughcastle Tunnel, Falkirk. Part of the Falkirk Wheel complex; leads to Locks 1 & 2 and South Basin
See also
- Canals of Ireland
- Canals of the United Kingdom
- History of the British canal system
- Legging (canals)
- List of canals
- List of canal aqueducts in the United Kingdom
- List of canal basins in Great Britain
- List of canal junctions in the United Kingdom
- List of canal locks in the United Kingdom
- List of tunnels
- List of tunnels in the United Kingdom
References
- ^ Cumberlidge 2009, p. 366.
- ^ a b Cumberlidge 2009, p. 128.
- ^ Mosse 2018, p. 142.
- ^ Cumberlidge 2009, p. 161.
- ^ Cumberlidge 2009, p. 105.
- ^ Cumberlidge 2009, p. 363.
- ^ Mosse 2018, p. 113.
- ^ Cumberlidge 2009, p. 99.
- ^ a b Cumberlidge 2009, p. 76.
- ^ Mosse 2018, p. 117.
- ^ "Foulridge Tunnel - Graces Guide". www.gracesguide.co.uk. Grace's Guide. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
- ^ "FOULRIDGE - Village goes online! - Internet Archive". www.burnleyexpress.net. Burnley Express. 30 July 2004. Archived from the original on 29 October 2019.
- ^ Mosse 2018, p. 138.
- ^ Cumberlidge 2009, p. 72.
- ^ Cumberlidge 2009, p. 319.
- ^ The Dudley Canal and Tunnel Trust.
- ^ information – CanalPlanAC 2020.
- ^ Cumberlidge 2009, p. 246.
- ^ Skempton 2002, p. 736.
- ^ Cumberlidge 2009, p. 310.
- ^ a b Cumberlidge 2009, p. 152.
- ^ Cumberlidge 2009, p. 339.
Bibliography
- "Lord Ward's Tunnel". information – CanalPlanAC. 5 January 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- Cumberlidge, Jane (2009). Inland Waterways of Great Britain (8th Ed.). Imray Laurie Norie and Wilson. ISBN 978-1-84623-010-3.
- "History of the tunnels". The Dudley Canal and Tunnel Trust. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- Mosse, Jonathan (2018) [1969]. Waterways Guide 2: Severn, Avon & Birmingham. Nicholson. ISBN 978-0-00-825801-6.
- Skempton, Sir Alec; et al. (2002). A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: Vol 1: 1500 to 1830. Thomas Telford. ISBN 978-0-7277-2939-2.
External links
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