The Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal is a 31-mile (50 km) long canal in England which connected the mining district around Moira just outside the town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch with the Coventry Canal at Bedworth in Warwickshire. It was opened in 1804 and a number of tramways were constructed at its northern end to service collieries. The canal was taken over by the Midland Railway in 1846 but remained profitable until the 1890s after which it steadily declined.
This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Ashby Canal"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.
