Oakham Canal information

The Oakham Canal ran from Oakham, Rutland to Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It opened in 1802, but it was never a financial...

Oakham is a market town and civil parish in Rutland (of which it is the county town) in the East Midlands of England. The town is located 25 miles (40...

Oakham Canal, to which it was connected, decline was rapid, and the canal closed in 1877. Two hundred years after it was opened, the Melton & Oakham Waterways...

Melton Mowbray Navigation to Oakham in Rutland, a further 15 miles (24 km). The extension would be called the Oakham Canal. An Act of Parliament was passed...

The following list of canals in the United Kingdom, includes some systems that are navigable rivers with sections of canal (e.g. Aire and Calder Navigation)...

transported to the town for malting. Plans to link it westwards to the Oakham Canal, northwards to the South Forty-Foot Drain and southwards to the River...

shareholder in the Oakham Canal; this had opened in 1802, bringing coal to Oakham and taking agricultural produce away; the canal was threatened commercially...

struggling Oakham Canal, of which he was a shareholder. The dispute led to a series of brawls and confrontations between the Earl's men and canal employees...

The Carlisle Canal opened in 1823, linking Carlisle to the Solway Firth, to facilitate the transport of goods to and from the city. It was a short-lived...

Western Railway (also known as the "Little" North Western; leased 1859) Oakham Canal (absorbed 1846) Redditch Railway (leased 1858, absorbed 1874) Sheffield...

Manchester and Oldham Canal Act 1792 (32 Geo. 3. c. 84) Manchester and Stockport Canal Act 1793 (33 Geo. 3. c. 21) Ashton Canal Act 1798 (38 Geo. 3. c...

Midland Railway (Oakham Canal Purchase) Act 1846 9 & 10 Vict. c. cclv 27 July 1846 An Act to authorize the Purchase of the Oakham Canal by the Midland Railway...

Teigh. South of Hall Farm, it borders Wymondham and Leicestershire. The Oakham Canal passes through the west of the parish. The county boundary (and the Rutland...

Basingstoke Canal Act 1778 (18 Geo. 3. c. 75) Relief of the Poor Act 1782 (22 Geo. 3. c. 83) Sheppy Yard Now St. Claire Street Westmoreland Canals Act 1792...

the left of the church. An embanked section of the disused Melton to Oakham Canal lies to the west of the village and loops under the road between Edmondthorpe...

schemes were proposed, one which would have created a canal from Stamford to the Oakham Canal, 11 miles (18 km) due west, with a link from Stamford to...

then begins to flow towards the north-west. The construction of the Oakham Canal and the Syston and Peterborough Railway resulted in many modifications...

1950s to link the Tividale Hall Estate with Oakham Road. City Road Infant and Junior Schools (later renamed Oakham Primary School) opened in 1939, followed...

development to the north. The "noxious lake" was to be narrowed into "a canal of running water", with a bridge formed across the east end of the loch...

and A46 into the Glenfield area of Leicester. Leicester | Goadby | Oakham Oakham | Rutland Water | Stamford | Peterborough Peterborough | March, Cambridgeshire...

in 1977. Bee Ness jetty is extant (2019) but is in a ruined condition. Oakham Ness jetty is south of Bee Ness jetty; it was built in 1964 as part of the...

The Blackstone River and Canal Heritage State Park is a part of the state park system of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, managed by the Massachusetts...

(1980). Tramroads of the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal (First ed.). Oakham, Leics: Railway and Canal Historical Society. pp. 28–31. ISBN 0901461237....

Corby, Glossop, Grantham, Kettering, Loughborough, Northampton, Mansfield, Oakham, Swadlincote and Wellingborough. The highest point at 636 m (2,087 ft) is...

Borley, H.V. (1982) Chronology of London Railways. Railway and Canal Historical Society. Oakham, Leicester ISBN 0-901461-33-4 White, H.P. (1963) A Regional...