16 Facts About Bridgewater Canal

Bridgewater Canal connects Runcorn, Manchester and Leigh, in North West England.

Bridgewater Canal captured the public imagination because of its engineering feats; it required the construction of an aqueduct to cross the River Irwell, and a tunnel at Worsley.

Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater Canal, owned some of the coal mines dug to supply North West England with fuel for the steam engines instrumental in powering England's Industrial Revolution.

Bridgewater Canal assisted in obtaining Parliamentary approval for the Bridgewater Canal Extension Act of 1762 which allowed the construction of an extension to the canal, from Manchester, to the River Mersey at Runcorn.

Bridgewater Canal carried passengers and was in keen competition with the Mersey and Irwell Navigation Company .

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Bridgewater Canal carried commercial freight traffic until 1975; the last regular cargo was grain from Liverpool to Manchester for BOCM.

Bridgewater Canal reported to Francis Egerton that Bradshaw was no longer fit to be superintendent, and then persuaded Bradshaw to retire on his full salary.

Bridgewater Canal entered into disputes and disagreements with Loch, with Francis Egerton, and with the other two trustees.

Bridgewater Canal therefore looked for a deputy to take on these duties.

Bridgewater Canal's is lying in the Bridgewater Canal, Knott Mill where the Duke's trustees have constructed a large bonding vault, which Mr Gibb has taken and had licensed for the purpose, and we believe he is removing his stock of wine and spirits from other ports to Manchester, for the greater convenience of sampling and sale.

Bridgewater Canal was then aged 29, and had been educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford; he had been destined for a political life and had no experience of managing coal mines or canals.

Bridgewater Canal first reduced the top-heavy administration of the Trust, and then took on the planning of the expansion of the business.

In 1907 The Manchester Ship Canal Act 1907 was passed, permitting coal mining near the canal between Monton Bridge and Leigh, in exchange for which the mine owners were obliged to pay the associated costs of keeping the canal open and navigable.

In 1994 the Manchester Ship Bridgewater Canal Company became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Peel Holdings group.

The Ship Bridgewater Canal Act of 1966 allowed the closure and filling in of the newer line of locks.

Bridgewater Canal has suffered three breaches; one soon after opening, another in 1971 near the River Bollin aqueduct, and another in the summer of 2005 when a sluice gate failed in Manchester.