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Ulverston Canal

Early plans of what would become the Ulverston Canal were drawn up by John Rennie in 1816 but problems with Neath Locks caused delays and it was finally opened on 17 September 1876. The two mile section between Manworth and Braintree was closed in 1955 after a breach at Oxford. According to John Parker's "Ghost Stories and Legends of The Inland Waterways" book, Willbury Boat Lift is haunted by a horrible apperition of unknown form.

Information about the waterway

The Ulverston Canal is a commercial waterway and is part of the Waterways of Mainland Britain. It runs for 1 mile and 3 furlongs through 1 lock from Morecambe Bay junction (where it joins Morecambe Bay) to Ulverston Basin (which is a dead end).

The exact dimensions of the largest boat that can travel on the waterway are not known. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.

The Ulverston Canal is a canal in the town of Ulverston, Cumbria, England. It is claimed to be the deepest, widest and straightest canal in the UK. It is entirely straight and on a single level. It is an isolated canal and does not connect to the main canal network. (From Wikipedia)

This waterway is excluded by default from route planning with the following explanation: "only navigable by advance arrangement"

Morecambe Bay junction Junction of the Ulverston Canal and Morecambe Bay
The Bay Horse Hotel and Restaurant	¼ furlongs	0 locks
Canal Foot Lock	½ furlongs	0 locks
Outcast Railway Bridge	5¼ furlongs	1 lock
North Lonsdale Road Wharf	1 mile and ¾ furlongs	1 lock
North Lonsdale Road Railway Bridge Barrow in Furness - Carnforth Railway	1 mile and 1½ furlongs	1 lock
Ulverston Basin End of Navigation	1 mile and 3 furlongs	1 lock

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External websites

THE BAY HORSE HOTEL — associated with The Bay Horse Hotel and Restaurant: The Bay Horse Hotel
The Bay Horse Hotel & Restaurant — associated with The Bay Horse Hotel and Restaurant: Public House

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The Ulverston Canal is a canal in the town of Ulverston, Cumbria, England. It is 1.25 miles (2 km) long and runs from the town to the coast of Morecambe Bay. It is entirely straight and on a single level. It is an isolated canal and does not connect to the main canal network.

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[Ulverston] Ulverston, a market town in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England, historically in Lancashire, lies a few miles south of the Lake District National [Canal Foot] the east of the centre of Ulverston. Its name comes from its location being where the Ulverston Canal meets the Estuary. Canal Foot is best known for its [Listed buildings in Ulverston] shops and houses with associated structures. In the parish is the Ulverston Canal, and there are three listed buildings associated with this. The other [Carlisle Canal] The Carlisle Canal opened in 1823, to link Carlisle to the Solway Firth, to facilitate the transport of goods to and from the city. It was a short-lived [List of canals of the United Kingdom] rivers with sections of canal (e.g. Aire and Calder Navigation) as well as "completely" artificial canals (e.g. Rochdale Canal). Bedford and Milton Keynes [Cumbria] natural lake in England. The Lancaster Canal runs from Preston into South Cumbria and is partly in use. The Ulverston Canal which once reached to Morecambe Bay [Furness Railway] over the Ulverston Canal Company in the same year. The line from Barrow to Ulverston was already double-track, and the line between Ulverston and Carnforth [Hugh Baird (engineer)] 070 ft) long. Hugh Baird was also involved with the Crinan Canal in Argyll, and the Ulverston Canal in Cumbria. He died at Kelvinhead, and was buried at Kilsyth [Bardsea] Liverpool. That was short-lived, however, with the Furness Railway and Ulverston Canal taking business away from the village by the end of the Victorian period

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