Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal' has mentioned 'Canal' in the following places:
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| It is 12xc2xa0ft (3.7 metres) wide and is the longest aqueduct in Great Britain and the highest canal aqueduct in the world. | WIKI |
| The aqueduct was to have been a key part of the central section of the proposed Ellesmere Canal, an industrial waterway that would have created a commercial link between the River Severn at Shrewsbury and the Port of Liverpool on the River Mersey. | WIKI |
| Although a less expensive construction course was surveyed further to the east, the westerly high-ground route across the Vale of Llangollen was preferred because it would have taken the canal through the mineral-rich coalfields of North East Wales. | WIKI |
| Only parts of the canal route were completed because the expected revenues required to complete the entire project were never generated. | WIKI |
| After the westerly high-ground route was approved, the original plan was to create a series of locks down both sides of the valley to an embankment that would carry the Ellesmere Canal over the River Dee. | WIKI |
| The aqueduct was one of the first major feats of civil engineering undertaken by Telford, who was becoming one of Britain's leading industrial civil engineers; although his work was supervised by Jessop, the more experienced canal engineer. | WIKI |
| one of the original patrons of the Ellesmere Canal was Lord of this manor, and in the reign of our Sovereign George the Third. | WIKI |
| With the completion of the aqueduct, the next phase of the canal should have been the continuation of the line to Moss Valley, Wrexham where Telford had constructed a feeder reservoir lake in 1796. | WIKI |
| This would provide the water for the length of canal between Trevor Basin and Chester. | WIKI |
| A street in the village is still named Heol Camlas (Welsh: Canal Way). | WIKI |
| With the project incomplete, Trevor Basin just over the Pontcysyllte aqueduct would become the canal's northern terminus. | WIKI |
| Subsequently, the Plas Kynaston Canal was built to serve industry in the Cefn Mawr and Rhosymedre areas in the 1820s. | WIKI |
| There might have been another canal extension ("Ward's") but detailed records do not survive. | WIKI |
| [11] Goods traffic was brought down to the canal by the Ruabon Brook Tramway which climbed towards Acrefair and Plas Bennion. | WIKI |
| In 1844, the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company, which owned the broad canals from Ellesmere Port to Chester and from Chester to Nantwich, with a branch to Middlewich, began discussions with the narrow Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, which ran from Nantwich to Autherley, where it joined the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. | WIKI |
| This was granted on 8 May 1845, when the larger Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company was formed. | WIKI |
| In 1846, the canal and the aqueduct became part of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company. | WIKI |
| [13] As the aqueduct was largely in an area that was served by railways owned by the Great Western Railway, the LNWR was more than happy for the canal to remain open as long as it remained profitable. | WIKI |
| Commercial traffic on the canal greatly declined after a waterway breach near Newtown, Powys (now part of the Montgomery Canal) in 1936. | WIKI |
| The canal was formally closed to navigation under the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company Act of 1944. | WIKI |
| On 6 September 1945, due to inadequate maintenance, the canal breached its banks east of Llangollen near Sun Bank Halt. | WIKI |
| The aqueduct was saved (despite its official closure to waterway traffic) because it was still required as a water feeder for the remainder of the Shropshire Union Canal. | WIKI |
| In 1955 the Mid & South East Cheshire Water Board agreed to maintain the canal securing its future. | WIKI |
| The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is now maintained and managed by the Canal & River Trust (branded Glandxc5xb5r Cymru in Wales). | WIKI |
| Cast plates are laid transversely to form the bed of the canal trough. | WIKI |
| [25] A feature of a canal aqueduct, in contrast with a road or railway viaduct, is that the vertical loading stresses are virtually constant. | WIKI |
| Every five years the ends of the aqueduct are closed and a plug in one of the highest spans is opened to drain the canal water into the River Dee below, to allow inspection and maintenance of the trough. | WIKI |
| [28] The aqueduct was suggested as a contender in 2005xe2x80x94its 200th anniversary year[29]xe2x80x94and it was formally announced in 2006 that a larger proposal, covering a section of the canal from the aqueduct to Horseshoe Falls would be the United Kingdom's 2008 nomination. | WIKI |
| The length of canal from Rhoswiel, Shropshire, to the Horseshoe Falls, including the main Pontcysyllte Aqueduct structure as well as the older Chirk Aqueduct, were visited by assessors from UNESCO during October 2008, to analyse and confirm the site management and authenticity. | WIKI |
| A view of the Dee Valley from the aqueduct From the river and valley The canal being drained for inspection and maintenance (2009) Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in Winter Aqueduct viewed with Pont Cysyllte bridge and Cefn Mawr Viaduct Aerial view Aerial view showing football ground and Cefn Mawr Aerial view | WIKI |
| The Pontcysyllte Canal is a remarkable example of the construction of a human-engineered waterway in a difficult geographical environment, at the end of the 18th century and the start of the 19th century. | UNESCO |
| The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal are early and outstanding examples of the innovations brought about by the Industrial Revolution in Britain, where they made decisive development in transport capacities possible. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (ii): The intensive construction of canals in Great Britain, from the second half of the 18th century onwards, and that of the Pontcysyllte Canal in particular in a difficult region, bear witness to considerable technical interchanges and decisive progress in the design and construction of artificial waterways. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iv): The Pontcysyllte Canal and its civil engineering structures bear witness to a crucial stage in the development of heavy cargo transport in order to further the Industrial Revolution. | UNESCO |
| The property has all the elements of integrity necessary for the expression of its value, as a major historic canal of the Industrial Revolution. | UNESCO |
| The buildings associated with the canal and its immediate environment usually achieve a good degree of authenticity. | UNESCO |