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Grand Contour Canal

  • The canal that never was!

    The canal that never was!

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    December 4, 2023

    THE Grand Contour Canal project was an ambitious endeavour, both in name and scale, as it would have dwarfed the current HS2 project – whichever bit is going ahead – but it may have achieved more. It aimed to build a 100ft wide, 17ft deep canal with 25ft headroom down the spine of England to…

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