Flowery Giants at the 200 year celebration of the Leeds Liverpool Canal at Burnley Lancashire

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The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a canal in Northern England, linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool. Over a distance of 127 miles (204 km), it crosses the Pennines, and includes 91 locks on the main line. It has several small branches, and in the early 21st century a new link was constructed into the Liverpool docks system. At Burnley, rather than using two sets of locks to cross the shallow Calder valley, Whitworth designed a 1,350 yards (1,234 m) long and up to 60 feet (18 m) high, embankment. It would also require another 559 yards (511 m) tunnel nearby at Gannow and a sizeable cutting to allow the canal to traverse the hillside between the two. It took 5 years to complete this work, with the embankment alone costing £22,000 (about £ million in 2014)

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Size: 4500px × 6000px
Location: Gannow Wharf,Burnley, Lancashire,England
Photo credit: © Brenda Kean / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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