HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Chartism, Chesterfield Canal, Canal Age
5 Dec 2020
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The canal network took much longer to construct than is commonly appreciated. Revolution, canal transport was restricted to just a limited number of regional routes. A consequence of this is that, by the beginning of the nineteenth century, they had nearly half a century of operating as regional assets, strengthening the regional economies in which they operated. Turnbull again notes canals were built and operated as local enterprises first and formed parts of a national network second. The majority of canal traffic from the late eighteenth to the mid nineteenth century was by heavy goods such as coal and other minerals. Turnbull estimates that 52 per cent of all traffic on the chesterfield canal between 1777 and 1789 was heavy goods, mainly coal. Langton argues that people in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were increasingly conscious of their separate regional identities and interests.
