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- Somerset_Coal_Canal abstract "The Somerset Coal Canal (originally known as the Somersetshire Coal Canal) was a narrow canal in England, built around 1800 from basins at Paulton and Timsbury via Camerton, an aqueduct at Dunkerton, Combe Hay, Midford and Monkton Combe to Limpley Stoke where it joined the Kennet and Avon Canal. This gave access from the Somerset coalfield, which at its peak contained 80 collieries, to London. The longest arm was 10.6 miles (17 km) long with 23 locks. From Midford an arm also ran via Writhlington to Radstock, with a tunnel at Wellow.A feature of the canal was the variety of methods used at Combe Hay to overcome height differences between the upper and lower reaches of the canal, initially by the use of caisson locks and when this failed an inclined plane and then a flight of 22 locks.The Radstock arm was never commercially successful and was replaced first with a tramway in 1815 and later incorporated into the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. The Paulton route flourished for many years and was very profitable, carrying very high tonnages of coal for several decades; this canal carried the fuel that powered the city of Bath. By the 1880s coal production declined as the various pits ran out and closed.In 1896 the main pump at Dunkerton failed and the declining revenue could not pay for a replacement. The canal became somewhat disused after 1898 and officially closed in 1902, being sold off to the various railway companies. Much of the course of the canal has since been used for a railway. In October 2006 a grant was obtained from the Heritage Lottery Fund to carry out a technical study on one of the locks and associated structures at Combe Hay.".
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- Somerset_Coal_Canal subject Category:1805_establishments_in_England.
- Somerset_Coal_Canal subject Category:1904_disestablishments.
- Somerset_Coal_Canal subject Category:Bath_and_North_East_Somerset.
- Somerset_Coal_Canal subject Category:Canals_in_Somerset.
- Somerset_Coal_Canal subject Category:History_of_Somerset.
- Somerset_Coal_Canal subject Category:Industrial_archaeological_sites_in_the_United_Kingdom.
- Somerset_Coal_Canal subject Category:Somerset_coalfield.
- Somerset_Coal_Canal point "51.334 -2.409".
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- Somerset_Coal_Canal comment "The Somerset Coal Canal (originally known as the Somersetshire Coal Canal) was a narrow canal in England, built around 1800 from basins at Paulton and Timsbury via Camerton, an aqueduct at Dunkerton, Combe Hay, Midford and Monkton Combe to Limpley Stoke where it joined the Kennet and Avon Canal. This gave access from the Somerset coalfield, which at its peak contained 80 collieries, to London. The longest arm was 10.6 miles (17 km) long with 23 locks.".
- Somerset_Coal_Canal label "Somerset Coal Canal".
- Somerset_Coal_Canal label "قناة فحم سومرست".
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- Somerset_Coal_Canal lat "51.334".
- Somerset_Coal_Canal long "-2.409".
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- Somerset_Coal_Canal depiction Somerset_Coal_Canal_Map.png.
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