Monkland Canal
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monkland-canal-167-348422
title:
Monkland Canal
text:
The Monkland Canal was a 12+1⁄4-mile-long (19.7 km) canal designed to bring coal from the mining areas of Monklands to Glasgow in Scotland. In the course of a long and difficult construction process, it was opened progressively as short sections were completed, from 1771. It reached Gartcraig in 1782, and in 1794 it reached its full originally planned extent, from pits at Calderbank to a basin at Townhead in Glasgow; at first this was in two sections with a 96-foot (29 m) vertical interval betwe
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Historic site
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkland_Canal
date created:
2005-07-17T23:45:15Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T16:06:18Z
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13
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