When was the first canal?

Question

built ( dug ? )in the uk, also the last one . and where ?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankey_Broo...

In doing so they constructed the first wholly artificial modern canal built in England, the first of the Industrial Revolution, and open two years before Act was passed for the building of the Bridgewater Canal, which is often credited with that distinction.

Answer 2

The Sankey Canal??? Are you guys kidding? Get real.

Back up a hundred years to the digging of the Exeter Canal from 1564 to 1566. Also had the first pound locks in Britain .

Read this:

http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/tech/canh...