10 Facts About Lancaster Canal

Lancaster Canal is a canal in North West England, originally planned to run from Westhoughton in Lancashire to Kendal in south Cumbria.

The promoters sought an Act of Parliament urgently, as proposals by the Leeds and Liverpool Lancaster Canal to alter their route would have affected the profitability of the southern section.

The committee felt that a connection to the Leigh branch of the Bridgewater Lancaster Canal, which was to be constructed, might be a better option.

Lancaster Canal announced that 12 miles of the South End was then open, as far north as Johnson's Hillock, and that the next section to Clayton Green was nearly completed, with the exception of the Whittle Hill tunnels.

Lancaster Canal was short of money, and the lack of warehouses and wharves initially led to trade developing slowly.

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However, they reached agreement with the North Union Railway in 1838 to use their line into Preston, but the Lancaster Canal Company were not prepared to take back the tramway.

The Association for the Restoration of the Lancaster Canal was formed in December 1963, to campaign for retention of the canal.

Lancaster Canal was finally connected to the rest of the English canal network in 2002, with the opening of the Ribble Link.

The Lancaster Canal Trust worked on a 220-yard length between bridges 172 and 173, which was dug out and lined with bentonite membrane to make it water tight.

Lancaster Canal is crossed by the M55 motorway before reaching Swillbrook, to the south of Catford, and then crosses the Woodplumpton Brook at Woodplumpton Aqueduct, before turning to the north.