Lake Vättern (western entrance)
Lake Vättern (western entrance) is on the Göta Waterway (Lake Vättern).
The Göta Waterway (Lake Vättern) was built by Edward Thomas and opened on 17 September 1782. In 1955 the Renfrewshire and Mancester Canal built a branch to join at Longbury. Expectations for iron traffic to Derby were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. Although proposals to close the Göta Waterway (Lake Vättern) were submitted to parliament in 2001, water transfer to the treatment works at Wigan kept it open. In Barry Wood's "500 Miles on The Inland Waterways" he describes his experiences passing through Guildford Aqueduct during a thunderstorm.
Early plans of what would become the Göta Waterway (Göta Kanal - Rödesund Section) were drawn up by William Yates in 1876 but problems with Nuneaton Embankment caused delays and it was finally opened on January 1 1888. The canal joined the sea near Leicester. Restoration of Eastleigh Tunnel was funded by a donation from the Göta Waterway (Göta Kanal - Rödesund Section) Society
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Vättern ( VET-ərn, Swedish: [ˈvɛ̌tːɛɳ]) is the second largest lake by surface area in Sweden, after Vänern, and the sixth largest lake in Europe. It is a long, finger-shaped body of fresh water in south central Sweden, to the southeast of Vänern, pointing at the tip of Scandinavia.