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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Forth-Clyde Canal
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Long-disused canal of great importance when first built (1768–90 by *Smeaton), because it enabled boats and barges to cross Scotland from one coast to the other. It linked the Forth at Grangemouth to the Clyde at Bowling, a distance of 61km/38m between almost exactly the two points joined, for a different reason, by the *Antonine Wall. From 1802 the canal had the benefit of Britain's first tug powered by *steam.
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