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Bridgewater Canal (Pomona Lock Branch)

 
 
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The Bridgewater Canal (Pomona Lock Branch) is a broad canal and is part of the Bridgewater Canal. It runs for 1 furlong through 1 lock from Pomona Dock No 4 (where it joins the Manchester Ship Canal (Main Line)) to Pomona Lock Branch Junction (where it joins the Bridgewater Canal (Main Line)).

The maximum dimensions for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway are 72 feet long and 14 feet wide. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.

The navigational authority for this waterway is The Bridgewater Canal Company Limited

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Pomona Dock No 4
Junction with Branch to Bridgewater Canal
Pomona Strand Bridge 1 furlong 0 locks
Pomona Lock 1 furlong 0 locks
Pomona Lock Branch Junction
Junction of Bridgewater Canal and Branch to Manchester Ship Canal
1 furlong 1 lock
 
 
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The Bridgewater Canal connects Runcorn, Manchester and Leigh, in North West England. It was commissioned by Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, to transport coal from his mines in Worsley to Manchester. It was opened in 1761 from Worsley to Manchester, and later extended from Manchester to Runcorn, and then from Worsley to Leigh.

The canal is connected to the Manchester Ship Canal via a lock at Cornbrook; to 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 once connected with the River Mersey at Runcorn but has since been cut off by a slip road to the Silver Jubilee Bridge.

The Bridgewater canal is described as the first great achievement of the canal age, although the Sankey Canal opened earlier. Bridgewater captured the public imagination because of its engineering feats; it required the construction of an aqueduct to cross the River Irwell, and a tunnel at Worsley. Its success helped inspire a period of intense canal building in Britain, known as Canal Mania. It later faced intense competition from the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the Macclesfield Canal. Navigable throughout its history, it is one of the few canals in Britain not to have been nationalised, and remains privately owned. Pleasure craft now use the canal which forms part of the Cheshire Ring network of canals.

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