Canal

[single]

Just looking at the map and wouldn't it be handy you could get to Exmouth from Burnham. I wonder why it wasn't done in the old days? It would just be a case of playing with the existing river.

 

[bert49uk]

The Grand Western Canal ran between Taunton in Somerset and Tiverton in Devon in the United Kingdom. The canal had its origins in various plans, going back to 1796, to link the Bristol Channel and the English Channel by a canal, bypassing Lands End. An additional purpose of the canal was the supply of limestone and coal to lime kilns along with the removal of the resulting quicklime, which was used as a fertiliser and for building houses. This intended canal-link was never completed as planned, as the coming of the railways removed the need for its existence.

im sure i saw something a few years ago when they were talking of doing it again

 

[lancelot]

The Grand Western Canal ran between Taunton in Somerset and Tiverton in Devon in the United Kingdom. The canal had its origins in various plans, going back to 1796, to link the Bristol Channel and the English Channel by a canal, bypassing Lands End. An additional purpose of the canal was the supply of limestone and coal to lime kilns along with the removal of the resulting quicklime, which was used as a fertiliser and for building houses. This intended canal-link was never completed as planned, as the coming of the railways removed the need for its existence.

im sure i saw something a few years ago when they were talking of doing it again

Interesting piece of information. I have also wondered why it was never completed.