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Pictures of the Shropshire Union Canal,

the Middlewich Branch.

The Shropshire Union canal as we now it is composed of parts of all three of the four companies which came together as the Shropshire Union. However other sections still exist but are now called the Llangollen canal and the Montgomery canal. What we now as the Shropshire Union is a canal reaching for sixty-six miles through forty-seven locks, some narrow some broad, from the outskirts of Wolverhampton past Nantwich and Chester to the Mersey estuary at Ellsemere Port opposite Liverpool.

From Barbridge near Nantwich a branch was eventually built across to Middlewich to connect with the Trent & Mersey Canal It is a very attractive stretch of rural canal. All to often just dismissed as a way to get from the Trent & Mersey canal to the Shropshire Union. It is however worth cruising in its own right. It cuts across the end of the Weaver valley partly clinging to the side of the valley and partly on a huge embankment.

More pictures of this canal?

Autherly to Norbury / Norbury to Nantwich / Barbridge to Chester / Chester to Ellesmere Port

General information on the canal.

The History of the canal

The Chester canal / The Liverpool & Birmingham Junction. / The Shropshire Union.

Find our information about other canals and rivers on the canal index page.

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