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| Skinburness to Keswick Canal | ||
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| Keswick to Skinburness Canal | ||
| Bassenthwaite to Skinburness Canal | ||
| Skinburness to Bassenthwaite Canal | ||
| locality:- | Skinburness | |
| civil parish:- | Silloth-on-Solway (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | canal | |
| 1Km square:- | NY1255 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY15 | |
| civil parish:- | Keswick (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | canal | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2623 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY22 | |
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| person:- | surveyor : Crosthwaite, Peter |
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| date:- | 1798 |
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| period:- | 18th century, late | |
| period:- | 1790s | |
| The route for a canal from Skinburness to Keswick was surveyed by Peter Crosthwaite,
1798. The number of locks required made the scheme impractical. |
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| Feruson, Richard S: 1890: History of Cumberland: (London) |
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