Canals in The United Kingdom
See Canals of the United Kingdom for a list of the canals of Great Britain organised alphabetically by country, and lists of abandoned and future canal routes.
Likewise, see Canals of Ireland, which covers both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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Famous quotes containing the words canals, united and/or kingdom:
“The Nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky;
The walls, the woods, and long canals reply.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“All comes united to th’ admiring eyes;”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)