The Oakham Canal was a 15-mile broad canal linking two market towns -Melton Mowbray, in Leicestershire, and Oakham, the county town of Rutland. A quiet, dead-end waterway through rural England, it is barely mentioned by the canal history books, and only a few local enthusiasts have explored its route. But for a few weeks in the mid-19th Century, its banks echoed to the sound of cannon-fire and 'riotous affray' as feuding canal owners quarrelled about its future.
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