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Pennine Waterways
Leeds & Liverpool Canal 
with Leigh Branch
Cheshire, Lancashire und Yorkshire























The Leeds & Liverpool Canal
this canal was planed to be the first to cross the Pennines.
Its construction was decided in 1770 and already in 1773, the first stretch from Skipton to Bingley was opened. It was a stretch with no locks, though!
Then, works were suspended several times for the lack of money. Only 46 years later, the canal was finally opened. It was the last one in this area and the costs for it were five times higher then planned.
The biggest handicap was then the complexity and variety of the route. Today, exactly these handicaps make this canal to be one of the most interesting waterways at all.