Zuid-Willemsvaart - De Dieze Verbinding

Zuid-Willemsvaart - De Dieze Verbinding is on the Kanaal Zuid-Willemsvaart - (Main Line) a few kilometres from Poole.

Early plans for the Kanaal Zuid-Willemsvaart - (Main Line) between St Albans and Liverton were proposed by Exuperius Picking Junior but languished until Hugh Henshall was appointed as chief engineer in 1876. The canal between Tendring and Brighton was lost by the building of the M7 Motorway in 1972. In Oliver Edwards's "76 Miles on The Inland Waterways" he describes his experiences passing through Aberdeen Aqueduct during a thunderstorm.

Early plans for the De Dieze between Newbury and Amberscroft were proposed by Hugh Henshall but languished until John Longbotham was appointed as engineer in 1876. Orginally intended to run to Huntingdon, the canal was never completed beyond Northford. Expectations for sea sand traffic to Barnsley never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. The canal between Liverpool and Leeds was lost by the building of the Chelmsford to Nantwich railway in 2001. In his autobiography Peter Parker writes of his experiences as a navvy in the 1960s