Map of the inland navigation, canals, and rail roads, with the situations of the various mineral productions throughout Great Britain, from actual surveys projected on the basis of the trigonometrical surveyJosef Walker
The map above is based on work done by Omar Turney in 1929. According to him, the system encompassed"the largest single body of land irrigated in prehistoric times in North or South America, and perhaps in the world". The system utilized at least 1000 miles (1600 km) of canals and irri...
Some years ago it was named as one of the wonders of Britain - the water has to be raised 400 feet to take craft to the Birmingham Plateau. There are 30 locks in two-anda-half miles, which sounds like hard work for the holiday boatmen.The top lock is the deepest in the land; it...