Authorised in 1755 as the Sankey Brook Navigation, the Sankey Canal was essentially a new waterway, linking St Helens and Newton-le-Willows with the Mersey at Warrington, later extended to Widnes. Disused since 1963, the towpath now forms a linear parkway through woodland, farmland and parkland, with plenty of industrial archaeology en route, finishing by the shore of the Mersey estuary
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