Stevenston Canal
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stevenston-canal-185-6587201
title:
Stevenston Canal
text:
The Stevenston Canal was a waterway in North Ayrshire, Scotland, built for Robert Reid Cunningham of Seabank and Patrick Warner of the Ardeer Estate, which ran to the port of Saltcoats from Ardeer, and Stevenston with a number of short branches to coal pits along the length of the cut. The canal opened on 19 September 1772, the first commercial canal in Scotland. It closed in the 1830s, when it was abandoned following the exhaustion of the coal mines and the rise of importance of Ardrossan as a
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original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenston_Canal
date created:
2013-05-03T17:41:04Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T21:33:41Z
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