Lancaster Canal
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The Lancaster Canal is a canal in Lancashire in the north of England, originally planned to run from Westhoughton in Lancashire to Kendal in south Cumbria. The section around the crossing of the River Ribble was never completed, and much of the southern end absorbed into the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Only the section from Preston to Tewitfield near Carnforth in Lancashire is currently open to navigation, with the canal north of Tewitfield having been severed in three places by the M6 motorway, and by the A590 road near Kendal.
Designed by civil engineer John Rennie, in 1792, work largely ceased in 1799. Its most notable feature is an aqueduct across the River Lune just north of Lancaster. It was finally connected to the rest of the English canal network by the building of the Ribble Link.