Aqueduct - built to last
Carrying the Macclesfield Canal across the Bollin Valley was a huge challenge for civil engineer William Crossley in 1831. The valley was marshy and the pilings sank into the mud, endangering the whole enterprise. Local man Charles Nichols suggested diverting the two streams responsible, and culverting them across the south of the valley thus creating a good structural base for the huge aqueduct and its massive embankment - thought to be unique in British canal building; it has no traditional centre fill of earth, but is filled instead, with stone...
Aqueduct - built to last
Carrying the Macclesfield Canal across the Bollin Valley was a huge challenge for civil engineer William Crossley in 1831. The valley was marshy and the pilings sank into the mud, endangering the whole enterprise. Local man Charles Nichols suggested diverting the two streams responsible, and culverting them across the south of the valley thus creating a good structural base for the huge aqueduct and its massive embankment - thought to be unique in British canal building; it has no traditional centre fill of earth, but is filled instead, with stone...