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In 2021, work to create a footpath along the canal was undertaken, and mostly completed, by volunteers and a local contractor. This will provide a walkway from the Trent and Mersey Canal along the line of the
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Information board by the Trent and Mersey Canal, at the former junction with the
Burslem Branch Canal. The artwork shows how the Branch Canal and surrounding areas would have looked shortly before the breach in
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