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The canal was built for the transportation of lead ore from the Peak District to the Trent, and from there to the rest of the country. Engineered by James Brindley, it served the coalfields and quarries of South Yorkshire. The stone for the Palace of Westminster was quarried in South Anston, Rotherham, and transported via the canal.

The building of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway line parallel to the canal ( 1849Events January 23 Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her MD by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming the United States' first woman doctor January 31 Corn Laws abolished in the United Kingdom February 14 In New York City, James Knox Polk be) left much of the navigation redundant, and the WorksopWorksop is a town in Nottinghamshire, England, situated on the River Ryton although its nearest city is Sheffield in South Yorkshire. The town is located at 53º 19N, 1º 7W, at the northern edge of Sherwood Forest. Population (2004): 39,800. History Workso - Chesterfield stretch ceased to serve commercial traffic in 19081908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). Events January-February January 1 A ball signifying New Year's Day drops in New York City's Times Square for the first time January 8 A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue T, when problems with mining subsidenceSubsidence is a term used in geology, engineering and surveying to denote the motion of a surface (usually, the earth's surface) downwards relative to a datum such as sea-level. In meteorology, subsidence refers to the movement of air downwards. Surfaces necessitated the closure of the 3,102 yardThis article is about the unit of measure known as the yard''. For other definitions, see Yard (disambiguation). A yard (abbr. yd is an imperial unit of length, defined as 3 feet or 36 inches, which is exactly 0. 9144 metres, presuming international inche (2,836 m) long Norwood Tunnel , Kiveton Park. At the time of construction, Norwood Tunnel was the joint longest canal tunnelSwitzerland subway. canal tunnel. A tunnel is an underground passage. When designed for use by traffic, it may be called an underpass . It may be for pedestrians and/or cyclists, for general road traffic, for motor vehicles only, for rail traffic, or for in Britain, and it was sixth longest by the time it collapsed. The stretch between the tunnel and Worksop subsequently fell into ruin and became un-navigable, while parts of the isolated section from the tunnel to Chesterfield were infilled and redeveloped. Parts of the canal near Chesterfield are still navigable but are isolated from other waterways.

In 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U, following a lengthy period of restoration, the Worksop to Kiveton stretch of the canal was reopened.