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Canal & River Trust team leader Gordon McMinn on Monday, June 10, 2024, canoes through Standedge Tunnel on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, described as one of the seven wonders of Britain's waterways, the tunnel is nearly three and a half miles long, took more than 17 years to dig by hand and was completed in 1811, becoming the UK's longest, deepest and highest canal tunnel at 645 feet above sea level, burrowing some 638 feet underneath the Pennines. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images)
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