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Birmingham Canal Navigations (Dudley Canal No 2 - Lapal Canal)

Early plans of what would become the Birmingham Canal Navigations (Dudley Canal No 2 - Lapal Canal) were drawn up by Cecil Thomas in 1816 but problems with Gateshead Embankment caused delays and it was finally opened on 17 September 1782. The canal joined the sea near Glasgow. The canal between Kirklees and Warrington was lost by the building of the Portsmouth bypass in 2001. In 1972 the canal became famous when Thomas Wood swam through Rotherham Tunnel in 36 hours to encourage restoration of Castleworth Inclined plane.

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The Birmingham Canal Navigations (Dudley Canal No 2 - Lapal Canal) is part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations (Dudley Canal No 2) and is made up of the Birmingham Canal Navigations (Dudley Canal No 2 - Lapal Canal - Original Line East End ), the Birmingham Canal Navigations (Dudley Canal No 2 - Lapal Canal - Original Line West End ), the Birmingham Canal Navigations (Dudley Canal No 2 - Lapal Canal - Abandoned Line ) and the Birmingham Canal Navigations (Dudley Canal No 2 - Lapal Canal - New Line ).

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External websites

Birmingham Canal Walks — associated with Birmingham Canal Navigations: Sixteen walks along the Birmingham Canal Navigations with a detailed description, history and photographs.

Wikipedia

Wikipedia has a page about Birmingham Canal Navigations

Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) is a network of canals connecting Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and the eastern part of the Black Country. The BCN is connected to the rest of the English canal system at several junctions.

At its working peak, the BCN contained about 160 miles (257 km) of canals; today just over 100 miles (160 km) are navigable, and the majority of traffic is from tourist and residential narrowboats.

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[Birmingham Canal Navigations Society] the Birmingham Canal Navigations, and based IN Oldbury, West Midlands, England. List of waterway societies in the United Kingdom List of navigation authorities [Water levels of the Birmingham Canal Navigations] The Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN), a network of narrow canals in the industrial midlands of England, is built on various water levels. The three longest [Birmingham and Fazeley Canal] The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal is a canal of the Birmingham Canal Navigations in the West Midlands of England. Its purpose was to provide a link between [BCN Main Line] The BCN Main Line, or Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line describes the evolving route of the Birmingham Canal between Birmingham and Wolverhampton in [Canal] example was Worcester Bar in Birmingham, a point where the Worcester and Birmingham Canal and the Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line were only seven [Grand Union Canal] and Birmingham Canal leads to the Digbeth Branch Canal of the Birmingham Canal Navigations at the Warwick Bar, while the later line of the Birmingham and [Worcester and Birmingham Canal] connection to the Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) was prevented by the Worcester Bar, a physical barrier at Gas Street Basin, Birmingham designed so that [Arena Birmingham] will be renamed Utilita Arena Birmingham from 15 April 2020. The arena is located alongside the Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line's Old Turn Junction [List of canals of the United Kingdom] etc. now part of the Grand Union Canal Main line, incl old main line and branches part of Birmingham Canal Navigations inclined planes South Yorkshire

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