Pennine waterways

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Pennine waterways are a network of interconnected canals and navigable rivers crossing England’s Pennine hills, historically used for industrial transport and now popular for leisure boating and tourism.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
South Pennine Ring 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf canal system
waterway network
connects Irish Sea
North Sea
east coast of England
west coast of England
country England
developedFor coal transport
manufactured goods transport
textile industry
hasPart Aire and Calder Navigation
Ashton Canal
Bridgewater Canal
Huddersfield Broad Canal
surface form: Calder and Hebble Navigation

Huddersfield Broad Canal
Huddersfield Narrow Canal
Leeds and Liverpool Canal
Macclesfield Canal
Peak Forest Canal
River Aire
River Calder
River Irwell
River Mersey
River Trent
Rochdale Canal
Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation
Trent and Mersey Canal
historicalPeriod Industrial Revolution
locatedIn Northern England
Pennines
managedBy Canal & River Trust
surface form: Canal and River Trust
notableFeature aqueducts
canal tunnels
historic mills along banks
locks
status largely restored
navigable
traverses Cheshire
Derbyshire
Greater Manchester
Lancashire
Yorkshire
usedFor angling
freight transport
industrial transport
leisure boating
recreational cruising
tourism
waterside walking

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Rochdale Canal formsPartOf Pennine waterways
this entity surface form: South Pennine Ring
Rochdale Canal partOf Pennine waterways