 After several years of construction , on 9 January 1794 an agreement was reached with the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company to create a link from the Bolton arm of the canal to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Red Moss , near Horwich . This agreement required significant design changes to allow the canal to carry the wider boats used on the broad gauge Leeds and Liverpool Canal , which included a change to broad locks . Benjamin Outram was employed to inspect the works , and reported on the cost of this conversion as being £ 26 @,@ 924 . Although the necessary changes were implemented , the route of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal was altered and the link was not built . In the same year the Haslingden Canal link to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal was proposed , from the Bury arm of the canal . Although authorised by an Act of Parliament , it too was never built . The canal company remained hopeful of a link between the two canals , but all hope of this was lost when on 21 June 1819 an Act of Parliament was enacted to create a link between the Leigh extension of the Bridgewater Canal , and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal . 
