What year did the canal along the northern border of Appleton open?
Listed buildings in Appleton, Cheshire Appleton is a civil parish in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England. It contains 25 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. The parish is partly residential, including the village of Appleton Thorn, and is otherwise mainly rural. The Bridgewater Canal runs along its northern border, the A49 road is to the west, and the M6 motorway is to the east. Most of the listed buildings are residential, are related to farming, or are associated with the canal and roads in the parish. The exceptions to this are the village church, a war memorial, an obelisk, and a Medieval cross base.
Lancaster Canal The Lancaster Canal is a canal in North West England, originally planned to run from Westhoughton in Lancashire to Kendal in south Cumbria (then in Westmorland). The section around the crossing of the River Ribble was never completed, and much of the southern end leased to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, of which it is now generally considered part.