John Edyvean was a British engineer who invented the inclined plane system, to reduce the necessity for locks on the canal system. Canal locks in England. ... For other uses, see Canal (disambiguation). ...

In 1773, during the reign of George III, a plan was made to create a canal from Mawgan Porth, through various parishes including St Mawgan, St. Columb Major, Little Colan, and St. Columb Minor, to Porth. The project was meant to convey goods from the coast inland and eventually to the south coast. George III (George William Frederick) (4 June 1738–29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain, and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until 1 January 1801, and thereafter King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death. ... Location within the British Isles St Columb Major (Cornish: Sen Kolomm Veur) is a town in Cornwall, England, to the west of Wadebridge and south of Newquay. ... Colan is a village and parish in the Restormel district of mid-Cornwall, United Kingdom. ... The text of the following account was adapted from:- The Parish Church History and Calendar blotter of 1939-40. ...

Unfortunately, Mr Edyvean died before the project was completed at a cost of £100,000. An attempt to revive the scheme was made in 1829 by a Mr Retallick of Liskeard, but this too amounted to nothing. , Liskeard ( ; IPA — usually stressed on the second syllable) (Cornish: ), is an ancient stannary and market town at the head of the River Looe valley in the ancient hundred of West Wivelshire in southeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. ...

Edyvean died in the 1780s. An obituary of the time in a monthly review related:

In the year 1779 he had finished the canal up to the town of St. columb..... in that year I went with some friends to visit this work. We overtook this poor old man groping his way up the inside of his canal, and leading a miserable little horse in his hand. We joined him and he conducted us to all the parts of his ingeneous work with the intelligence of one who had formed the whole, inch by inch, and this alone can account for the ease and safety with which in his blind state he passed though every part of it. We dined together and he gave us a little history of his life"

References

'The Canals of South West England' by Charles Hadfield (ISBN 0-7153-4176-6)

See also

• Bude Canal.
• St. Columb Canal
• Canal inclined plane

For the town in the United States, see Bude, Mississippi. ... St. ... Inclined plane on Marne-Rhine Canal An inclined plane is a system used on some canals for raising boats between different water levels. ...

External links

• History of Bude Canal