The Top 10 Oldest Canals in the UK (That Are Still Open)

How old do you think the UK’s oldest canal is? 100,200 maybe even 300 years old? Well, the answer is more surprising than you might think. These are the ten oldest canals in the UK and where they are located… The Top 10 Oldest Canals in the UK (That Are Still Open)   10 – Limehouse Cut, London (Year Opened: 1766) Wiki Info: The Limehouse Cut was authorised by the River Lee Act, an Act of Parliament obtained on 29 June 1767, after the engineer John Smeaton identified the need to make several cuts and to replace existing flash locks on the river with pound locks. Two days after the Act was obtained, Thomas Yeoman was appointed as the company

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