The Bridgewater Canal

The Bridgewater Canal interfaces Runcorn, Manchester and Leigh, in North West England. It was dispatched by Francis Egerton, third Duke of Bridgewater, to transport coal from his mines in Worsley to Manchester. It was opened in 1761 from Worsley to Manchester, and later reached out from Manchester to Runcorn, and afterward from Worsley to Leigh. The waterway is associated with the Manchester Ship Canal through a bolt at Cornbrook; to the Rochdale Canal in Manchester; to the Trent and Mersey Canal at Preston Brook, southeast of Runcorn; and to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Leigh.

It once associated with the River Mersey at Runcorn however has since been cut off by a slip street to the Silver Jubilee Bridge. It later confronted exceptional rivalry from the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the Macclesfield Canal. Safe since its commencement, it is one of only a handful couple of trenches in Britain not to have been nationalized, and remains exclusive. Delight make presently utilize the waterway which frames some portion of the Cheshire Ring system of channels.