Wardle Canal

The Wardle Canal is the shortest canal in the UK, at 154 feet (47 m).^[1] The canal, in Middlewich, Cheshire, connects the Trent and Mersey Canal to the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal, terminating with a single lock known as Wardle Lock. It was built in 1829 so that the navigation authority of the Trent and Mersey Canal could maintain control over the junction.^{[clarification needed]}