One 'easy' line for a branch to Leek from the Trent and Mersey north of
Etruria would be to roughly follow the line of the Maccy from north of
Harecastle to near the Dane below Bosley, then head past what is now Rudyard
reservoir to Leek. Given the canal building methods at that time the line would
have a few more twists and turns than the Maccy which was built 50 years later.
At one time recently there was a proposal to build a new bit of canal
linking the Caldon, Leek branch, to the Maccy with a junction below Bosley
Locks. Does anyone know if this very sane, sensible and useful bit of new canal
has any hope of getting built?
David Cragg
Steve Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd not looked at these maps before so was fascinated to spot two
proposed developments from the 1780s in my part of the world which I'd
never heard about before:
The Leek Branch of the Caldon Canal was apparently originally proposed
as a canal on its own running from the T&M somewhere north of Etruria. I
can't think of an obvious line for this as Caldon follows the only
obvious valley.
The Commercial Canal was a proposed line from Nantwich, crossing the T&M
near Stoke, heading over to Uttoxeter then down to Burton.
Does anyone know anything more about either of these waterways? A quick
Google suggested there are documents about the latter in Stoke Museum
but I can't find any references at all to the former.
Cheers,
Steve
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