[email protected] wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Steve Wood <st...@...> wrote: > > > > Incidentally I was surprised to hear the reference to Tristam's=20 > > constituency (Stoke Central) having the most miles of canal of any in=20 > > the country. Surely that can't be right? By my maths it's less than 10=20 > > miles in total.
I'm guessing they confused it with the claim I've heard that Staffordshire has the most miles of canal of any county in the country. (not that I've checked - and it depends on your definition of 'county'...) > > Clearly untrue - Eddisbury must be pretty near the highest mileage canal = > constituency - about 40 miles I worked out once. I reckon for the biggest mileage in one parliamentary constituency you need to look for an area with lots of waterways but not too many people (so the constituencies will cover a larger area). For example perhaps Boston & Skegness, which should take in most of the Witham Navigable Drains as well as a chunk of the Witham and a bit of the Black Sluice. ...assuming that '...in the country' means we can exclude Northern Ireland. Martin L
