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The Douglas Navigation was a canalised section of the River Douglas or Asland, in Lancashire, England, running from its confluence with the River Ribble to Wigan. It was authorised in 1720, and some work was carried out, but the undertakers lost most of the share money speculating on the South Sea Bubble. Alexander Leigh attempted to revive it eleven years later, and opened it progressively between 1738 and 1742. Leigh began work on a parallel canal called Leigh's Cut to improve the passage from Newburgh to Gathurst, but progress was slow and it was unfinished in 1771.

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  • Douglas Navigation (en)
  • Navigation Douglas (fr)
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  • La Navigation Douglas désigne la canalisation, sur une trentaine de kilomètres, d'une section de la qui a permis au XVIIIe siècle l'expansion de l'extraction charbonnière dans la région du Lancashire en Angleterre, alors pauvre et très peu peuplée, puis un développement économique précoce, qui a préfiguré la révolution industrielle, dont cette région fut le berceau. Cotée en Bourse de Londres, la Navigation Douglas fut victime du Krach de 1720. (fr)
  • The Douglas Navigation was a canalised section of the River Douglas or Asland, in Lancashire, England, running from its confluence with the River Ribble to Wigan. It was authorised in 1720, and some work was carried out, but the undertakers lost most of the share money speculating on the South Sea Bubble. Alexander Leigh attempted to revive it eleven years later, and opened it progressively between 1738 and 1742. Leigh began work on a parallel canal called Leigh's Cut to improve the passage from Newburgh to Gathurst, but progress was slow and it was unfinished in 1771. (en)
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  • Douglas Navigation (en)
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  • Douglas Navigation (en)
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  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/River_Douglas_-_geograph.org.uk_-_125772.jpg
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  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bank_Bridge_and_Warehouse.jpg
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  • Wigan (en)
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  • Rufford Branch (en)
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  • The river from Wanes Blades bridge, between Parbold and Rufford (en)
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