River Saône
Early plans of what would become the River Saône were drawn up by John Smeaton in 1835 but problems with Taunford Tunnel caused delays and it was finally opened on January 1 1782. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Northley to Ambersstone canal at Dundee, the difficulty of building an aqueduct over the River Prescorn at York caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Warrington instead. Expectations for stone traffic to Longfield never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. The River Saône was closed in 1888 when Bath Aqueduct collapsed. In Edward Edwards's "Travels of The Barge" he describes his experiences passing through Bridgend Boat Lift during the General Strike.
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The Saône ( SOHN, French: [son]; Francoprovençal: Sona; Latin: Arar) is a river of eastern France. It is a right tributary of the Rhône, rising at Vioménil in the Vosges department and joining the Rhône in Lyon, just south of the Presqu'île.
The name Saône derives from that of the Gallic river goddess Souconna, which has also been connected with a local Celtic tribe, the Sequanes. Monastic copyists progressively transformed Souconna to Saoconna, which ultimately gave rise to Saône. The other recorded ancient names for the river were Brigoulus and Arar.