[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There can be little doubt > that Pontywotsit is one of the leading pieces of canal infrastructure in the > world, but that might not be enough for to get the world heritage status.
An alternative view (not mine, particularly, but that of a waterways historian who used to post here a few years ago) is that a better UK nomination for World Heritage Status for a canal structure would have been the Anderton Lift. On the grounds that despite its undoubted iconic status the Pontcysyllte didn't actually contribute much to the development of the world's waterway systems, whereas Anderton in its original form was the pattern for a number of lifts in various countries including the four Belgian ones already listed as a World Heritage Site. Martin L
