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The United Kingdom is home to a vast network of waterways and canals. A waterway is a navigable body of water and comes in many forms. A common example is a canal, which is an artificial channel of water used for irrigation or transportation of people and goods. Other examples of waterways include lakes, rivers and oceans.
Waterways in the United Kingdom have played different roles. For example, they were used in the Industrial Revolution in many roles like the transport of goods between factories. This declined and in the present although sometimes used for goods, more canals are used for leisure purposes or a combination. For canals in Britain, see Canals of Great Britain, for Northern Ireland, see Canals of Ireland
Main article: Kennet and Avon Canal
The Old Turn Junction on the meeting of the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal and the Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line Canal in Birmingham
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- ...that Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, which was designed by Thomas Telford and carries the Llangollen Canal over the River Dee near Cefn Mawr, is the highest and longest aqueduct in Britain?
- ...that the River Thames is navigable from the Thames estuary to as far inland as the town of Lechlade in Gloucestershire?
- ...that the group of locks on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, the Bingley Five Rise Locks are the steepest flight of Staircase locks in the United Kingdom?
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