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History of the British canal system: Quiz
  
  

Question 1: A similarly dense network of canals was constructed in the ________ area, serving the local textile industries: The Bridgewater, Rochdale and Ashton canals, were examples of these.
Salford, Greater ManchesterGreater ManchesterTraffordLancashire

Question 2: To the south of London, the Wey and Arun Canal linked London to ________.
Reading, BerkshireSouthamptonPortsmouthBrighton and Hove

Question 3: To the north several trunk cross-country canals, linking Birmingham to Manchester were constructed, including the Trent and Mersey and ________.
Llangollen CanalShropshire Union CanalStaffordshire and Worcestershire CanalRiver Weaver

Question 4: ________ has come to see the economic and social potential of canalside development, and moved from hostility towards restoration, through neutrality, towards a supportive stance.
Worcester and Birmingham CanalStaffordshire and Worcestershire CanalGrand Union CanalBritish Waterways

Question 5: In the industrial conurbation of ________ and the Black Country, a dense network of nearly one hundred and sixty miles of canals, dubbed the Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) was constructed to serve the network of industries.
WolverhamptonCoventryStoke-on-TrentBirmingham

Question 6: Within just a few years of the Bridgewater's opening, an embryonic national canal network came into being, with the construction of canals such as the ________ and the Trent & Mersey Canal.
Grand Union CanalOxford CanalWilts & Berks CanalWorcester and Birmingham Canal

Question 7: In the mid-eighteenth century the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, who owned a number of coal mines in northern England, wanted a reliable way to transport his coal to the rapidly industrialising city of ________.
LiverpoolSalford, Greater ManchesterGreater ManchesterManchester

Question 8: On the majority of British canals the canal-owning companies did not own or run a fleet of boats, since this was usually prohibited by the ________ setting them up to prevent monopolies developing.
LawLegal systems of the worldAct of ParliamentCommon law

Question 9: However the main network saw brief surges in use during the First and ________ and still carried a substantial amount of freight until the early 1950s.
World War IISoviet occupationsSecond Sino-Japanese WarCollaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II

Question 10: They decided to bypass the Liverpool monopoly on coastal trade by converting a section of the Irwell into the ________, which opened in 1894, turning Manchester into an inland port in its own right.
Manchester Bolton & Bury CanalManchester Ship CanalSankey CanalBridgewater Canal
















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