Trent and Mersey Canal (Wardle Lock Branch) – Gazetteer

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The Trent and Mersey Canal (Wardle Lock Branch) is a narrow canal and is part of the Trent and Mersey Canal. It runs for 1 furlong from Middlewich Junction (where it joins the Trent and Mersey Canal (Main Line - Harding's Wood to Middlewich) and the Trent and Mersey Canal (Main Line - Middlewich to Preston Brook)) to Wardle Lock No 4 (where it joins the Shropshire Union Canal (Middlewich Branch)).

The maximum dimensions for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway are 72 feet long and 10 feet wide. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.

The navigational authority for this waterway is Canal & River Trust

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Trent and Mersey Canal

Middlewich Junction Junction of Trent and Mersey Canal Main Line with Wardle Lock Branch leading to Shropshire Union Middlewich Branch
Middlewich Junction Footbridge	a few yards	0 locks
Bridge No 168 (Wardle Lock Branch)	¼ furlongs	0 locks
Wardle Lock Footbridge	¾ furlongs	0 locks
Wardle Lock No 4 Junction of Trent and Mersey Canal, Wardle Lock Branch and Shropshire Union Canal, Middlewich Branch	1 furlong	0 locks

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External websites

Trent & Mersey Canal Society – founded in 1974 — associated with Trent and Mersey Canal

Wikipedia

Wikipedia has a page about Trent and Mersey Canal

The Trent and Mersey Canal is a 93 ¹⁄₂-mile (150 km) canal in Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire in north-central England. It is a "narrow canal" for the vast majority of its length, but at the extremities to the east of Burton upon Trent and north of Middlewich, it is a wide canal.

The narrow locks and bridges are big enough for a single narrowboat 7 feet (2.1 m) wide by 72 feet (22 m) long, while the wide locks can accommodate boats 14 feet (4.3 m) wide, or two narrowboats next to each other.

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[Caldon Canal] Caldon Canal (or more properly, the Caldon Branch of the Trent & Mersey Canal), opened in 1779, runs 18 miles (29 km) from Etruria, in Stoke-on-Trent (where [Macclesfield Canal] through the towns of Macclesfield and Congleton, to an end-on junction with the Hall Green Branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal. There is a stop lock at the [Shropshire Union Canal] Wardle Canal with the Trent and Mersey Canal, and the River Dee (in Chester). With two connections to the Trent and Mersey (via the Middlewich Branch and the [Stone, Staffordshire] The Canal Cruising Company today operates from the historic site of the canal maintenance and boat building operations of the Trent and Mersey Canal Company [Bridgewater Canal] 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 [Coventry Canal] Trent and Mersey Canal. It also has connections with the Ashby Canal, the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal and the Oxford Canal. Some maps show the canal [James Brindley] years to drive the tunnel. The Trent and Mersey Canal was the first part of this ambitious network, and the later Chester Canal, started in 1772, was also [Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal] Worcestershire with the Trent and Mersey Canal at Haywood Junction by Great Haywood. James Brindley was the chief engineer of the canal, which was part of [Westport Lake, Stoke-on-Trent] the Trent and Mersey Canal. It is owned by the Canal and River Trust, and is operated by the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust and Stoke-on-Trent City Council

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