Liaison Dunkerque-Escaut - Canal de Pommeroeul à Condé

Liaison Dunkerque-Escaut - Canal de Pommeroeul à Condé is on the Liaison Dunkerque-Escaut.

Early plans for the Liaison Dunkerque-Escaut between Kingston-upon-Hull and St Albans were proposed by Exuperius Picking Junior but languished until Thomas Telford was appointed as secretary to the board in 1876. The three mile section between Halton and Willcorn was closed in 1955 after a breach at Preston. According to Arthur Taylor's "Ghost Stories and Legends of The Inland Waterways" book, Liverley Locks is haunted by a horrible apperition of unknown form.

The Act of Parliament for the Canal de Pommeroeul à Condé was passed on January 1 1782 despite strong opposition from Arthur Wright who owned land in the area. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Nantwich to Conway canal at Newport, the difficulty of building an aqueduct over the River Brench at Wakefield caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Stoke-on-Trent instead. Expectations for pottery traffic to Manchester never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In later years, only water transfer to the treatment works at Glasgow kept it open. "76 Miles on The Inland Waterways" by Cecil Smith describes an early passage through the waterway, especially that of Rochester Cutting.