- This excludes the privately-owned canals (the most important being the Manchester Ship Canal in northwestern England) and certain stretches of the navigable rivers, such as the Thames, and the lower sections of the Trent.
- British Waterways Board: The Future of the Waterways (London, 1964).
- British Waterways Board: The Facts About the Waterways (London, 1965).
- Report of the Royal Commission on the Canals and Inland Navigations of the United Kingdom (London, 1907–1909).
- British Transport Commission: Canals and Inland Waterways (London, 1955).
- Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Inland Waterways.
- Op. cit., pp. 68–69.
- Charles Hadfield: British Canals (London, 1959).
- British Transport Commission, op. cit., p. 31.
- W. Smith: An Economic Geography of Great Britain (London, 1949), p. 576.
- This canal, together with the Caledonian and Crinan Canals in Scotland, is here considered within the Commercial Division as social factors merit its retention, in particular its contribution to the relief of London's road congestion. The Board request a subsidy to keep it open, and place it and the Scottish Canals in a “Special” group.
- The major waterways comprised about 400 miles, and figures from the annual reports which are used in this paragraph relate to this wider definition.
- British Waterways Board: Annual Reports and Accounts (London, 1965), p. 14.
- Op. tit., p. 6.
- Hadfield, op. cit., p. 267.
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