Grand Contour Canal
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The canal that never was!
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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