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On 29/01/2023 at 22:38, MtB said:

Since when were rivers, canals as per the question?

 

And do those canals you mention still exist in regular navigable use? 

 

 

 

A couple of miles of the Wey and Arun canal are regularly used, by trip boats

 

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8 hours ago, magpie patrick said:

Historically it was in Lancashire. The joys of boundary changes....

 

There's not much joy in them for us hard done by Lancastrians.  We used to have Sefton, Merseyside, Greater Manchester, lumps of Cumbria and lumps of Yorkshire. 

 

If it carries on like this we'll need a Parish Council not a County Council - probably with one single rose petal as our emblem instead of the whole Red Rose ...

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3 hours ago, magpie patrick said:

Good point 

 

The list of counties with no non-tidal navigation is getting shorter... 

 

 

What list? 

 

I thought this thread was concluding there are no counties without canals. Every suggestion so far appears to have been subsequently demolished....

 

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Kinross-shire, the second smallest county in Scotland .

I took my driving test in Kinross a County town with no traffic lights at that time. There was a temporary traffic light system due to roadworks and my examiner put me through them in both directions. The car, a low slung Triumph Herald scraped the road as we swung round at an acute angle. I passed the test just the same.

Hand signals were unrehearsed and not easy, what with window winding, and indicators cancelling themselves unbidden! Of course I was using both systems simultaneously, lol.

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16 hours ago, magpie patrick said:

If we're talking navigable canals I don't think Durham, Nothumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, Suffolk or Dorset ever had a navigable canal. If we allow non-tidal rivers and lakes then I think we're down to Durham, Northumberland and Dorset, but stand to be corrected


What canal was in Rutland, if any?

 

@MtB the list MP refers to is the one in the post I quoted above. We’ve since discounted Cumberland and Westmorland.

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33 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

 

What list? 

 

I thought this thread was concluding there are no counties without canals. Every suggestion so far appears to have been subsequently demolished....

 

Dorset never had a canal nor a navigable non-tidal river or lake. The Dorset and Somerset canal, which was partially built but not opened, didn't make it into Dorset

 

4 minutes ago, Captain Pegg said:


What canal was in Rutland, if any?

 

@MtB the list MP refers to is the one in the post I quoted above. We’ve since discounted Cumberland and Westmorland.

The Oakham Canal - Oakham is the county town

9 minutes ago, Derek R. said:

I cannot help but wonder if there is any point to this 'list'.

None whatsoever! 

 

Pointless discussion is nothing new here!

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1 hour ago, Stroudwater1 said:

Im not sure if the middle of River Dee formed the boundary of Flintshire or the edge of the Dee, if the boundary is in the middle of the Dee then its not a county without a navigation  but if its at the edge of the Dee I don't believe it has one? 

There was a canal in the Neston coal mine which probably went more than halfway across the Dee, and the mines at Holywell also had underground canals.

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