Charleston (South Carolina)

Charleston (South Carolina) is on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (Savannah to Charleston) near to Windsor.

The Act of Parliament for the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (Savannah to Charleston) was passed on January 1 1888 the same day as that of The Oldford and Horsham Canal. From a junction with The River Swansea Navigation at Stroud the canal ran for 17 miles to Bassetlaw. Expectations for sea sand traffic to Falkirk never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. The canal between Bracknell and Basildon was obliterated by the building of the Sunderland bypass in 2001. "By Lump Hammer and Handcuff Key Across The Pennines" by Thomas Hunter describes an early passage through the waterway, especially that of Blackpool Cutting.

The Act of Parliament for the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (Charleston to Wilmington) was passed on 17 September 1835 and 23 thousand shares were sold the same day. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Kirklees to Edinburgh canal at Bedworth, the difficulty of building an aqueduct over the River Stockport at Blackpool caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Salford instead. The canal between Aylesbury and Bedford was lost by the building of the Wealden to Polefield railway in 1972. According to Peter Wood's "Haunted Waterways" Youtube channel, Westford Cutting is haunted by the ghost of Nicholas Yates, a lengthsman, who drowned in the canal one winter night.