Wardle Canal

Wardle Canal

The Wardle canal is the shortest canal in the UK at 154 ft. [cite web|title=CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE – Hursts Ahoy and Llangollen Ho!|work=On Board Narrowboat FRILFORD (British Waterways No. 500645)|author=Adrian Rayson|accessdate=2008-05-13|url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~rayson/frilford25.html]

It lies in Middlewich, Cheshire, UK, and connects the Trent and Mersey Canal to the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal, terminating with a single lock known as Wardle Lock. It was built in 1829 so that the navigation authority of the Trent and Mersey Canal could maintain control over the junction.

ee also

*Canals of Great Britain
*History of the British canal system

External links

* [http://www.jim-shead.com/waterways/Shropshire-Union---Middlewich-Branch.html Jim Shead's entry on the Wardle Canal]

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