Wheel is the only rotating boat lift of its kind in the world, and one of two working boat lifts in the United Kingdom, the other being the Anderton Boat Lift.

History

Pre-1933 link

The two canals served by the wheel were previously connected by a series of 11 locks. With a 35 m difference in height, it required 3500 t of water per run and took most of a day to pass through the flight.

By the 1930s these locks had

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