Talk:Sankey Canal

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[edit] St Helens Canal

I've removed "but only in St.Helens (the rest of the canal, away from St.Helens, has always been the Sankey Canal)" pending sources being cited. I have never lived in St Helens or elsewhere locally, and have often heard it refered to as the St Helens Canal.

British Waterways refer to "St Helens Canal (Sankey Canal)".

I've also removed the reference to "mainly by misinformed locals", as again no sources are cited, and this has the ring of a local quarrel which has no place here. StephenDawson 11:44, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

The Sankey Navigation (canal) was opened in 1757. It did not go to St.Helens. It went to a part of the Lancashire Coalfield which was being productively mined by a company called Richard Evans. St.Helens was only linked to the canal some eighteen years later by the St.Helens section. This section is the St,Helens canal. I don't know, but maybe, the residents of the Warrington areas of Sankey, Great Sankey etc. refer to the Sankey Canal as that is it's historic title and St.Helens, to them, is just a distant town. Probably?