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An aqueduct is a bridge that carries a watercourse on its deck. Typically canals, but occasionally rivers are diverted over aqueducts.
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| x Almond Aqueduct |
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Union Canal |
The Almond Aqueduct is an aqueduct in Scotland, west of Ratho. 420 feet (130 m) long, it carries the Union Canal 76 feet (23 m) above the River Almond, from Edinburgh into West Lothian. It can be reached by car and by cyclists on the Union Canal...
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| x Avon Aqueduct |
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The Avon Aqueduct is an aqueduct on the Union Canal near Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland, UK. It is 810 feet (250 m) long and 86 feet (26 m) high; it is the longest and tallest aqueduct in Scotland, and the second longest in Britain (after the...
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| x Avoncliff Aqueduct |
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Kennet and Avon Canal |
Avoncliff Aqueduct (grid reference ST803599) carries the Kennet and Avon Canal over the River Avon and the Bath to Westbury railway line, at Avoncliff in Wiltshire, England.
It was built by John Rennie and chief engineer John Thomas, between 1797...
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| x Barton Swing Aqueduct |
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Bridgewater Canal |
The Barton Swing Aqueduct is a moveable aqueduct in Barton upon Irwell in Greater Manchester, England. It carries the Bridgewater Canal across the Manchester Ship Canal, the swinging action allows large vessels using the Manchester Ship Canal to...
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| x Bonnington Aqueduct |
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Union Canal |
The Bonnington Aqueduct is an aqueduct on the Union Canal, to the west of Edinburgh, Scotland.
The canal and the M8 motorway pass over the B7030 Cliftonhall Road, quite close to each other.
On the canal, the aqueduct is located between Bridge 15 ...
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| x Bullbridge Aqueduct |
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Cromford Canal |
The Bull Bridge Aqueduct was situated on the Cromford Canal, built in 1794, at Bullbridge east of Ambergate along the Amber Valley where it turned sharply to cross the valley and the Ambergate to Nottingham road. The Cromford canal is in Derbyshire,...
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| x Chirk Aqueduct |
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Llangollen Canal |
Chirk Aqueduct is a 70-foot (21 m) high and 710-foot (220 m) long aqueduct that carries what is now the Llangollen Canal across the Ceiriog Valley near Chirk, on the England-Wales border.
The aqueduct was designed by Thomas Telford for the Ellesmere...
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| x Clifton Aqueduct |
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Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal |
Clifton Aqueduct, built in 1796, carried the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal across the River Irwell in Salford, England. It is preserved as a Grade II listed building. The construction is of dressed stone with brick arches. Three segmental arches...
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| x Cosgrove aqueduct |
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Grand Union Canal |
Cosgrove aqueduct is a navigable cast iron trough aqueduct that carries the Grand Union Canal over the River Great Ouse, on the borders between Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire at the northwest margin of Milton Keynes in England. The present...
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| x Dundas Aqueduct |
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Kennet and Avon Canal |
Dundas Aqueduct (grid reference ST785625) carries the Kennet and Avon Canal over the River Avon and the Wessex Main Line railway from Bath to Westbury, near Limpley Stoke in Wiltshire, England.
It was built by John Rennie and chief engineer John...
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| x Engine Arm |
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Birmingham Canal Navigations |
The Engine Arm or Birmingham Feeder Arm near Smethwick, West Midlands, England, is a short canal built by Thomas Telford in 1825 to carry water from Rotton Park Reservoir (now called Edgbaston Reservoir) to the Old Main Line of the BCN Main Line...
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| x Lichfield Aqueduct |
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Lichfield Canal |
The Lichfield Canal Aqueduct is an aqueduct built to carry the future Lichfield Canal over the M6 Toll Motorway, just to the west of Lichfield and north of Birmingham, England.
The Lichfield Canal (originally part of the Wyrley and Essington Canal)...
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| x Marple Aqueduct |
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Peak Forest Canal |
Marple Aqueduct, also known as the Grand Aqueduct, carries the lower level of the Peak Forest Canal across the River Goyt at Marple, Greater Manchester, in north-west England.
Benjamin Outram and Thomas Brown jointly designed it and the contract for...
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| x New Semington Aqueduct |
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Kennet and Avon Canal |
New Semington Aqueduct (grid reference ST904609) carries the Kennet and Avon Canal over the new carriageway of A350 road, at Semington in west Wiltshire, England.
It has two channels of 5 metres with a 3.5 metres towpath and a 3.5 metres maintenance...
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| x Pontcysyllte Aqueduct |
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The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (Welsh pronunciation: [ˌpɔntkəˈsəɬtɛ], full name in Welsh: Traphont Ddŵr Pontcysyllte) is a navigable aqueduct that carries the Llangollen Canal over the valley of the River Dee, between the villages of Trevor and...
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| x Prestolee Aqueduct |
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Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal |
Prestolee Aqueduct is a stone-built aqueduct in Prestolee in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. The four-arch structure was constructed in the 1790s to carry the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal across the River Irwell...
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| x Scott Russell Aqueduct |
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Union Canal |
The Scott Russell Aqueduct is an aqueduct carrying the Union Canal over the A720 bypass, west of Edinburgh, Scotland.
It is named after the Scottish naval engineer John Scott Russell who discovered the soliton or solitary wave near Bridge 11 on the...
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| x Semington Aqueduct |
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Kennet and Avon Canal |
Semington Aqueduct (grid reference ST896609) is an aqueduct at Semington, Wiltshire, England, UK. It carries the Kennet and Avon Canal over the Semington Brook.
It is a grade II listed building.
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| x Slateford Aqueduct |
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Union Canal |
The Slateford Aqueduct is an aqueduct in Slateford, Edinburgh, Scotland. It was built by Hugh Baird and completed in 1822 with advice from Thomas Telford.
It has eight arches, is 600 feet (180 m) long and 60 feet (18 m) tall, and carries the Union...
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| x Stanley Ferry Aqueduct |
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Aire and Calder Navigation |
Stanley Ferry Aqueduct was built between 1836 and 1839 to take the Aire and Calder Navigation over the River Calder in Yorkshire, England. It is one of the earliest compression arch suspended-deck bridges in the world and is considered to be the...
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| x Store Street Aqueduct |
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Ashton Canal |
The Store Street Aqueduct in central Manchester, England was built in 1798 by Benjamin Outram on the Ashton Canal. A Grade II* listed building it is built on a skew of 45 degrees across Store Street, and is believed to be the first major aqueduct of...
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| x River Lumburn Aqueduct | |||||
