Somerset Coal Canal
The Somerset Coal Canal (otherwise the Somersetshire Coal Canal) was a narrow canal from Paulton to Limpley Stoke where it joined the Kennet and Avon Canal so giving ready access from the coal fields of Somerset, which at their peak contained 80 collieries, to London.
At its longest it was almost eighteen miles long with 23 locks. From Midford an arm ran to Radstock but this became firstly a tramway and was later incorporated into the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway.
The canal authorised by an Act of Parliament of 1794. The canal opening in 1805, closing in 1898 and was finally abandoned in 1904.