Water plants in the Lancaster Canal

摘要

The Lancaster Canal from Preston northward to Tewitfield near Carnforth provides c.68km of largely rural navigable waterway on one level and without locks that is used for leisure boating. Navigation once extended further northward from the now disused lock flight at Tewitfield for c.23km to Kendal. The canal north of Tewitfield was severed in several places in the 1960s by culverts where it is crossed by the M6 and other roads. The channel, however, still contains water for c.l4km north of Tewitfield and carries feed water to the still-navigated canal to the south (Anon., 2009, Laws, 2017). Although the line of the canal is generally north-south it has twists and turns as it follows its contour; in this article north means towards Kendal and southtowards Preston rather than necessarily describing geographical direction.