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Worsley Navigable Levels

53°30′2.2″N 2°22′52.2″W / 53.500611°N 2.381167°W / 53.500611; -2.381167

Starvationer at Ellesmere Port Canal Museum with a demonstration of the process of legging to push the boat through the tunnels

The Worsley Navigable Levels are an extensive series of coal mines in Worsley in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. They were worked largely by the use of underground canals (the navigable levels) and boats called starvationers.


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