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Originally Posted by staggeringman
must look that one up less me old chap!
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Yeah...the map is the original planned route. After construction started the usual thing happened with projects such as this - (this was the channel tunnel of its time) - they ran out of dosh. After a bit of argy-bargy and refinancing it was decided to run the route further south, where the importance of coal was just being realised.
Hence the canal rolls through Church, and not alongside the Ribble at Whalley.