Wiki143:WikiProject UK Waterways

File:River Dee Chester England.jpg Welcome to the Waterways of the United Kingdom WikiProject ...on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Mother projects: WikiProject Transport • WikiProject UK geography Portal: Portal:United Kingdom Goals Improve Wikipedia's coverage of canals, navigable rivers in the UK. Scope The project covers all articles about canals, navigable rivers and related features (locks, reservoirs, bridges, aqueducts, boats, people, etc.) located in the United Kingdom. To add coordinates and microformats as appropriate Participants You don't need to be British to help with this WikiProject. We welcome all registered editors good with layout and prose, and non-British editors who can point out when we've wrongly assumed we don't need to explain or define something for the reader, or failed to properly establish the context of an article. To add a UK Waterways userbox to your user page, please add {{User UKW}} to your talk page to generate... Template:Template other To add your name to the table, please visit the participants page. You may also wish to add the UK Waterways userbox to your profile: Template:Tl Adambro - Founding member. Andy Mabbett - Founder. Interested in Birmingham/ Black Country canals, and the application of coordinates using the Geo and hCard microformats. BeeTea as a Canadian who has never set foot in the UK, I cannot help much with individual articles, but I am mightily interested in the templates for this and for WP:TRAIL as well because I want to see them ready for roll-out in application to Canadian railways, canals and trails. Catwhoorg an expat right now, but with a lot of background in the UK waterways, deeper knowledge of the Northern network than the other regions. David Morris - active member of Chesterfield Canal Trust, tripboat skipper on Chesterfield Canal at Retford, living close to path of canal once restored, interested in keeping local sites current DDStretch Canal-related matters in Cheshire and contact for Cheshire Project. Derek Andrews expat now in Canada, formerly restoration volunteer and boater (c1973-c1985), interested in anything canal related, but especially the built heritage. Erebus555 - Founding member. Geni abandoned canals and canals under restoration mostly. jmbatchelor - Lives next to the Basingstoke Canal. L.J.Skinner interested in Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation and the Grand Union Canal, particularly around Tring, Pitstone, Aylesbury, Marsworth etc. Lynbarn - Founding member. Interested in, rather than expert in waterways, but keen to learn! Also doing some work with the stripmap templates for rail and waterways. Martin Cordon - Founding member. Originator of articles on Butterley and Norwood Canal Tunnels and Worsley Navigable Levels. Mainly interested in canal tunnels and the canals in my area. These are the Erewash, Cromford, Derby, Nottingham and Nutbrook Canals. Dave Mayall Narrowboat Mr Jinks, moored on the Peak Forest Canal, interested in expanding articles in the local area, and in improving image and map content. Oosoom - currently interested in local history of Birmingham and an old interest in canals. Pyrotec canals around Birmingham / Black Country, plus a few others, such as the Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone Canal. Rafmarham - Been on hire boat holidays for much of my life. Renata - Back again after a long absence. Moved from Derbyshire to Edinburgh last Sept. Interests: active canal boater (mainly Union Canal); history etc. of Scottish and other UK canals; UK rivers/waterways; Edinburgh and the Lothians; and more. Ron Jones Narrowboat "Betsey Trotwood", moored at Whixall Marina on Llangollen Canal, previously at Hallingbury Marina on River Stort - general interest. Simply south - some general stuff Smurrayinchester - interested in boat lifts/locks etc. and technical stuff (esp. templates) Traveler100 - photos Guidelines /How to write about UK Waterways Open tasks Fix #Articles in need of attention Write #Requested articles For any articles without images, update the Template:Tl project banner template call on the article talk page to include imageneeded=yes which will add the article to Category:UK waterways articles needing images. Try to find suitable images where possible for pages listed in Category:UK waterways articles needing images (0). For any articles without a route map where one is appropriate, update the Template:Tl project banner template call on the article talk page to include mapneeded=yes which will add the article to Category:UK waterways articles needing routemaps(0). Create route maps where possible for pages listed in Category:UK waterways articles needing routemaps (0). Recategorise articles from Category:Canals in the United Kingdom to categories for constituent nations. Assessment basics is now possible on class and importance. Please assess any unassessed pages. On a related note, the assessment page is at its basics and would welcome improvement. Articles that need re-assessing, as a result of significant additions. Barnsley Canal reassessed stub -> C class Add geographical coordinates to all articles on canals; buildings, canal features, etc. listed in this CatScan search. Alternatively, if CatScan is down or very slow, in Category:United Kingdom articles missing geocoordinate data. Find out how to do this at the Wikipedia:Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members. Assessment For the assessment page see Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Waterways/Assessment. Categories Article categories Category:Canals in the United Kingdom - 17 Category:Aqueducts in the United Kingdom - 2 Category:Aqueducts in England Category:Navigable aqueducts in England Category:Aqueducts in Scotland Category:Navigable aqueducts in Scotland Category:Aqueducts in Wales Category:Navigable aqueducts in Wales Category:Canals in England Category:Birmingham Canal Navigations - 52 Category:Canals in Berkshire Category:Canals in Cheshire Category:Canals in Gloucestershire Category:Canals in Greater Manchester Category:Canals in Hertfordshire Category:Canals in London Category:Kennet and Avon Canal Category:Canal reservoirs in England Category:Canals linked to the River Severn Category:Canals in Somerset Category:Canals in South Yorkshire Category:Canal junctions in England - 33 Category:Canal tunnels in England - 15 Category:Canals in Northern Ireland Category:Canals in Scotland Category:Canals in Wales Category:Canal tunnels in the United Kingdom Category:Canal tunnels in England - 15 Category:Locks of the United Kingdom - 4 Category:Locks of Berkshire Category:Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal Category:Locks of Oxfordshire Category:Locks on the River Thames Category:River navigations in the United Kingdom Category:United Kingdom canal stubs - 0 Category:Inland waterways under restoration Meta categories Category:WikiProject UK Waterways - 9 Commons:Category:Icons for canal descriptions - 598 Category:UK waterways articles needing images - 0 Category:Waterway routemap templates - 0 Category:UK waterways articles needing routemaps - 0 Templates Template:Tl Template:Tl or Template:Tl Template:Tlp or Template:Tlp Template:Tl Template:Tl File:Geographylogo.svg This location-related article lacks geographic coordinates. You can help by adding them. Please don't be overly precise. Template:Tl File:Geographylogo.svg This article about a linear feature lacks geographic coordinates. You can help by adding them, for each end, and perhaps the middle and any other significant points. Please don't be overly precise. Template:Tl for articles with multiple sets of coordinates; allows users to export them as KML files or see them on Google maps. (other services to be added). additional tags to the project template imageneeded=yes adds image requested text, and adds to Category:UK waterways articles needing images mapneeded=yes adds routemap requested text, and adds to Category:UK waterways articles needing routemaps class=FA|A|GA|B|Start|Stub|Cat|List|NA classify the article quality importance=Top|High|Mid|Low classify the article importance Maps legend Parentage The parents of this WikiProject are WikiProject Transport WikiProject UK geography. Related projects UK Railways Bridges Transport in Scotland WikiProject Rivers Requested articles Canals + places Bury and Sladen Canal Canals of the BCN: Soho Branch (see Google Maps aerial photo) Walsall Branch Canal (currently redirects to Walsall Canal, which article doesn't distinguish between them) Canals mentioned in Baskerville House (being excavated since 2009Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)) Chetney Canal (River Medway) Leicestershire Ring Stanley Aqueduct (Wilts and Berks Canal) Wasthill Tunnel on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal Organisations Cotswold Canals Trust [1] Kennet and Avon Canal Trust [2] Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust [3] Wilts & Berks Canal Trust Fellows Morton and Clayton People William Bennet (engineer) - article created 2010-05-30 John Hodgkinson (engineer) John Priddy Thomas Yeoman (1709/10-1781) Robert Weldon (?1754-1810) Robert Whitworth (d.1799) Technical Backpumps or Back pumping Newbury barges (wider than usual) Puddle clay Redirected to: Puddling (engineering) Sea lock Redirected to: Lock (water transport)#Sea Locks, expanding this within its article would be a good start. Split bridge as described in the towpath article. For the time being, redirected to roving bridge. Stop planks Misc Nicholson Guides Articles in need of attention Miscellaneous Improvements needed Category:United Kingdom canal stubs Category:Water transport stubs Category:UK waterways articles needing images History of the British canal system needs citation. Trentlock is a stub - now start class Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company only mentions the railway line they owned! Railway companies: Great Western Railway "GWR took over K&A", and "GWR owned 213 miles of canal". (Entire coverage in article!) London Midland and Scottish Railway doesn't properly mention canals, despite them closing many of them! (Doesn't actually cover railways that well, either!!!) Dorset and Somerset Canal v short British Transport Commission an unreference article, but I have put a hint of what happened to the canals in it and it is linked to British Waterways Board. Charles Hadfield - needs Bibliography Trent and Mersey Canal]] - copy edit; remove bulletted lists Manchester Dock - Badly needs expanding, especially bearing in mind it has recently been unearthed. Westport Canal little sub about a Somerset canal but I'm having problems finding any info about it. Fens Waterways Link Overall map a bit like the one here (not diagram) showing route options. Hugh Henshall - newly created, any help would be appreciated. Louth Navigation - needs more detail Humber - has hardly anything about shipping, or inland commercial working Illustrations - most pictures seem to come from Geograph, which is good, but there is a contemporary bias. Historic illustrations add depth & interest. Images needed See Category:UK waterways articles needing images) for a list of articles needing images Add the imageneeded=yes tag to the project template to add a page into this category Route-map needed See Template:Waterways legend for details of how to construct route maps See Category:UK waterways articles needing routemaps for a list of articles needing routemaps Add the mapneeded=yes tag to the project template to add a page into this category where appropriate Coordinates needed See Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates/Linear for advice Bude Canal Shropshire Union Canal Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Stourbridge Canal (work in progress) Stourport Ring Trent and Mersey Canal References The following may be useful; the indented lines are included here for ease of cut & pasting. Add a "pages=" attribute, if appropriate: {{cite book |last=Allsop |first=Niall |title=The Kennet & Avon Canal |year=1987 |publisher=Millstream Book |location=Bath |ISBN= 0-948975-15-6 }} *{{cite book|author=Hadfield, Charles|title=Canals of the West Midlands|publisher=[[David & Charles]]|location=Newton Abbott|year=1969|isbn=0-7153-4660-1}} {{cite book |last=Pearson |first=Michael |authorlink= |title=Kennet & Avon Middle Thames:Pearson's Canal Companion |year=2003 |publisher=Central Waterways Supplies|location=Rugby |ISBN= 0-907864-97-X}} *{{cite book|author=Perrott, David|author2=Mosse, Jonathan|title=Nicholson Waterways Guide 1 - Grand Union, Oxford & the South East|publisher=[[HarperCollins|Collins]]|year=2006|isbn=978-0-00-721109-8}} *{{cite book|author=Perrott, David|author2=Mosse, Jonathan|title=Nicholson Waterways Guide 2 - Severn, Avon & Birmingham|publisher=[[HarperCollins|Collins]]|year=2006|isbn=978-0-00-721110-4}} *{{cite book|author=Perrott, David|author2=Mosse, Jonathan|title=Nicholson Waterways Guide 3 - Birmingham & the Heart of England|publisher=[[HarperCollins|Collins]]|year=2006|isbn=978-0-00-721111-1}} *{{cite book|author=Perrott, David|author2=Mosse, Jonathan|title=Nicholson Waterways Guide 4 - Four Counties & the Welsh Canals|publisher=[[HarperCollins|Collins]]|year=2006|isbn=978-0-00-745259-0}} *{{cite book|last=Priestly|first=Joseph|authorlink=Joseph Priestly|title=Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, Throughout Great Britain|publisher=Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green|year=1831}} *{{cite book|author=Shill, Ray|title= Birmingham's Canals|publisher=Sutton|year=1999|isbn=0-7509-2077-7}} *{{Cite book|publisher = Sutton|isbn = 0750906081|last = Quinlan|first = Ray|title = Canal walks of England and Wales|date = 1994}} Footnotes