[1961] Manchester : Ashton Canal

The Ashton Canal, Manchester.

Looking towards Benjamin Outram's aqueduct crossing Store Street.

 

The Ashton Canal runs from the Rochdale Canal at Ducie Street in Manchester to its junction with the Huddersfield Narrow Canal at Ashton under Lyne, 0.4 miles east of Dukinfield Junction, where the Ashton Canal is joined by the Peak Forest Canal. The Ashton Canal is 6.7 miles long and has 18 locks. The canal has two disused branches (both partly filled in, but proposed for restoration): the Hollinwood Branch - 4.6 miles and 7 locks (which joined at Fairfield Junction), and the Stockport Branch - 4.9 miles and no locks (which joined at Clayton Junction in the middle of the Clayton Lock flight).

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