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North Pennine Ring

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The North Pennine Ring is a canal ring which crosses the Pennines between Manchester, Leeds and Castleford. [1]

44 relations: Aire and Calder Navigation, Ashton Canal, Barton Swing Aqueduct, Blackburn, Bridgewater Canal, Brighouse, British Waterways, Calder and Hebble Navigation, Canal ring, Canals of the United Kingdom, Castleford, Halifax, West Yorkshire, History of the British canal system, Huddersfield Broad Canal, Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Humber, Humber Keel, Inland Waterways Association, Lancaster Canal, Leeds, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, M1 motorway, Manchester, Manchester Ship Canal, Outer Pennine Ring, Pennines, River Aire, River Colne, West Yorkshire, River Irwell, Rochdale Canal, Runcorn, Sankey Canal, South Pennine Ring, Sowerby Bridge, Stamford Canal, Stanley Ferry Aqueduct, Subsidence, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Thornhill, West Yorkshire, Tom Pudding, Wainhouse Tower, Wakefield, Wigan, Worsley Navigable Levels.

Aire and Calder Navigation

The Aire and Calder Navigation is the canalised section of the Rivers Aire and Calder in West Yorkshire, England.

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Ashton Canal

The Ashton Canal is a canal in Greater Manchester in North West England.

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Barton Swing Aqueduct

The Barton Swing Aqueduct is a moveable navigable aqueduct in Barton upon Irwell, Greater Manchester, England.

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Blackburn

Blackburn is a town in Lancashire, England.

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Bridgewater Canal

The Bridgewater Canal connects Runcorn, Manchester and Leigh, in North West England.

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Brighouse

Brighouse is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England.

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British Waterways

British Waterways, often shortened to BW, was a statutory corporation wholly owned by the government of the United Kingdom.

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Calder and Hebble Navigation

The Calder and Hebble Navigation is a broad inland waterway, with locks and bridgeholes that are suitable for boats, in West Yorkshire, England.

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Canal ring

A canal ring is the name given to a series of canals that make a complete loop.

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Canals of the United Kingdom

The canals of the United Kingdom are a major part of the network of inland waterways in the United Kingdom.

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Castleford

Castleford is a town in the metropolitan borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.

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Halifax, West Yorkshire

Halifax is a minster town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England.

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History of the British canal system

The British canal system of water transport played a vital role in the United Kingdom's Industrial Revolution at a time when roads were only just emerging from the medieval mud and long trains of packhorses were the only means of "mass" transit by road of raw materials and finished products.

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Huddersfield Broad Canal

The Huddersfield Broad Canal or Sir John Ramsden's Canal, is a wide-locked navigable canal in West Yorkshire in northern England.

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Huddersfield Narrow Canal

The Huddersfield Narrow Canal is an inland waterway in northern England.

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Humber

The Humber is a large tidal estuary on the east coast of Northern England.

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Humber Keel

The Humber Keel was a type of sail craft used for inshore and inland cargo transport around Hull and the Humber Estuary, in the United Kingdom, particularly through the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Inland Waterways Association

The Inland Waterways Association (IWA) was formed in 1946 as a registered charity in the United Kingdom to campaign for the conservation, use, maintenance, restoration and sensitive development of British Canals and river navigations.

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Lancaster Canal

The Lancaster Canal is a canal in North West England, originally planned to run from Westhoughton in Lancashire to Kendal in south Cumbria (historically in Westmorland).

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Leeds and Liverpool Canal

The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a canal in Northern England, linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool.

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M1 motorway

The M1 is a motorway in England connecting London to Leeds, where it joins the A1(M) near Aberford, to connect to Newcastle.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Manchester Ship Canal

The Manchester Ship Canal is a inland waterway in the North West of England linking Manchester to the Irish Sea.

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Outer Pennine Ring

The Outer Pennine Ring is an English canal ring which crosses the Pennines between Manchester, Leeds and Castleford.

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Pennines

The Pennines, also known as the Pennine Chain or Pennine Hills, are a range of mountains and hills in England separating North West England from Yorkshire and North East England.

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River Aire

The River Aire is a major river in Yorkshire, England, in length.

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River Colne, West Yorkshire

The River Colne is a river in West Yorkshire formed by a confluence at the foot of the Pennines close to the village of Marsden.

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River Irwell

The River Irwell is a long river which flows through the Irwell Valley in North West England.

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Rochdale Canal

The Rochdale Canal is a navigable broad canal in Northern England, between Manchester and Sowerby Bridge, part of the connected system of the canals of Great Britain.

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Runcorn

Runcorn is an industrial town and cargo port in Halton, Cheshire, England, and in the southeast of the Liverpool City Region.

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Sankey Canal

The Sankey Canal in North West England connects St Helens to the River Mersey at Spike Island.

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South Pennine Ring

The South Pennine Ring is an English canal ring which crosses the Pennines between Manchester and Huddersfield.

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Sowerby Bridge

Sowerby Bridge is a market town in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England.

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Stamford Canal

Stamford Canal, now disused, is one of the earliest post-Roman canals in England.

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Stanley Ferry Aqueduct

Stanley Ferry Aqueduct was built between 1836 and 1839 to take the Aire and Calder Navigation over the River Calder in West Yorkshire, England.

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Subsidence

Subsidence is the motion of a surface (usually, the earth's surface) as it shifts downward relative to a datum such as sea level.

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Sydney Harbour Bridge

The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a steel through arch bridge across Sydney Harbour that carries rail, vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic between the Sydney central business district (CBD) and the North Shore.

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Thornhill, West Yorkshire

Thornhill is a village and former township in Dewsbury, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.

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Tom Pudding

Tom Pudding was the name given to the tub boats on the Aire and Calder Navigation, introduced in 1863 and used until 1985, which were a very efficient means of transferring and transporting coal from the open cast collieries of the South Yorkshire Coalfield near Stanley Ferry to the port of Goole, competing with rail.

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Wainhouse Tower

Wainhouse Tower is a folly in the parish of King Cross, on the south west side of Halifax, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, in England.

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Wakefield

Wakefield is a city in West Yorkshire, England, on the River Calder and the eastern edge of the Pennines, which had a population of 99,251 at the 2011 census.

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Wigan

Wigan is a town in Greater Manchester, England, on the River Douglas, south-west of Bolton, north of Warrington and west-northwest of Manchester.

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Worsley Navigable Levels

The Worsley Navigable Levels are an extensive series of coal mines in Worsley in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pennine_Ring

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