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Manchester
Water attractions Visit By Minibus
The
waterways of Manchester, built to supply the
needs of the industrial Revolution, now offer
hard pressed city dwellers, and visitors,
a quiet world of retreat and recreation. These
ribbons' of water, passing through towns,
villages and open country, act as wildlife
corridors, where plants and birds can exist
relatively undisturbed. For the walker, towpaths,
which once felt the steady plod of towing
horses, now offer excellent level routes,
sometimes high on embankments or deep in cuttings,
through woods or open fields, or discreetly,
often almost unnoticed, through the centre
of a town or village.
There
is interest for all - the moving patterns
of light and reflections on the water itself,
the natural history, the industrial archaeology,
waterside pubs and, of course, the many different
types of craft,
WATERWAYS IN I BRITAIN
The
canal age in Britain began with the opening
of the Bridgewater Canal in 1761. It was built
by the Duke of Bridgewater to link his coal
mines at Worsley with the burgeoning population
of Manchester. Of course, river navigations,
that is rivers deepened or widened to take
boats, had been used since Roman times, but
these followed natural routes which were often
not convenient for the movement of goods,
and were subject to spate or drought. Road
transport was virtually non-existent, consisting
of trains of pack horses making their way
along poor unmade tracks. When the Bridgewater
Canal opened, with its embankments and aqueducts
constructed on a scale not seen since Roman
times, it was a revelation. The price of coal
in Manchester fell dramatically, fuelling
the fires of the industrial Revolution. The
Duke's great investment paid offthe canal
was a financial success, and suddenly everyone
revolution.
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