On which canal was the very 1st lock flight built?

Answer 1

The oldest canal with pound locks is Exeter canal. The Exeter canal dates back over 500 years. It was the first canal in this country to have locks with gates.

Answer 2

Its on the Chesterfield Canal, Moving out of Shireoaks, heading towards the hill to the west, just past the aqueduct over the River Ryton. This crossing point forms the county border between Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire. Immediately after the aqueduct is the start of one of the earliest and steepest lock flights ever to have been built. In fact, what follows is probably the oldest continuous "long" lock flight in Britain. There are 22 locks in about 3 miles and these are split into two flights, Turnerwood (7 locks) and Thorpe (15 locks), though in affect they are one long lock flight with one short pound between the two at Turnerwood.

In 1776, the Snakholm locks were opened, but were turned into a staircase (Dudley Canal) much later. John Swinden had proposed a 5 flight into the Thames, on the Mardyke Canal, but it was not built, so in 1777, the Chesterfield staircase was opened, followed shortly by the staircase flights on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Dobson, Dowley Gap, Field, Kirkstall Forge, Newlay and Oddy.

Answer 3

They were on the canal that Darius I of Persia built between the Red Sea and the Nile River in about the 5th century BCE I think. And if not there, then on the Grand Canal built between the Hwang Ho and Yangtze Rivers of China in the last centuries BCE or the first centuries CE (I don't remember which dynasty)

Answer 4

The Wednesbury Canal in the Midlands.

Answer 5

The Grand Union

Answer 6

Panama Canal I think?