Aire Valley Marina (western entrance)
Aire Valley Marina (western entrance) is on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal (Main Line - Wigan to Leeds) near to Runworth Cutting.
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal (Main Line - Wigan to Leeds) was built by Nicholas Clarke and opened on January 1 1835. The canal joined the sea near Blackburn. Expectations for sea sand traffic to Polecroft were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. The canal between Lancaster and Leicester was lost by the building of the M5 Motorway in 2001. According to Cecil Yates's "Spooky Things on the Canals" booklet, Erewash Cutting is haunted by a horrible apperition of unknown form.

| Kirkstall Brewery Visitor Moorings | 1 mile, ¼ furlongs | |
| Kirkstall Wharf Bridge No 222 | 1 mile, ¼ furlongs | |
| Wyther Bridge No 223 | 6¾ furlongs | |
| Redcote Footbridge | ¾ furlongs | |
| Redcote Bridge No 224 | ¾ furlongs | |
| Aire Valley Marina (western entrance) | ||
| Aire Valley Marina (eastern entrance) | 1¾ furlongs | |
| Railway Bridge No 224A | 2½ furlongs | |
| Leeds Industrial Museum | 3¾ furlongs | |
| Armley Mills Bridge No 225 | 4 furlongs | |
| Canal Road Bridge No 225A | 4½ furlongs | |
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![Swan family on the canal. Cycling regularly into the city centre, I have had the pleasure during 2023 of watching a pair of mute swans raise their brood of three cygnets from newly-fledged to this point where they are fully grown but still with darker down. Next spring, I presume, they will be fully white. For a locational context, the bridge over the marina entrance, see [[4693644]]. by Stephen Craven – 10 November 2023](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/65/45/7654526_2a80d03f_120x120.jpg)




![Aire Valley Marina. Seen from the footbridge over the entrance from the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at the west end. The grey boat looks as though it might be a converted ships lifeboat.Leeds Caravan Storage in the background.The east end of the marina is in the adjacent grid square - see [[[310889]]] by Rich Tea – 12 January 2007](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/photos/31/08/310883_2e322810_120x120.jpg)
![Entrance to Aire Valley Marina. The Aire Valley Marina beside the Leeds Liverpool Canal. Compare with [[7405322]] from February the previous year. by DS Pugh – 01 June 2024](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/79/08/7790897_bf32d650_120x120.jpg)
![Leeds & Liverpool Canal approaching footbridge at Aire Valley Marina. There is a canal milepost (indicating 125 miles to Liverpool) [[7772954]] on the left hand side of the towpath by Roger Templeman – 10 May 2024](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/77/33/7773393_7fe4a35c_120x120.jpg)






![Boats in the Aire Valley Marina . Viewed from the towpath bridge [[4693644]]. The marina, running parallel to the main line of the canal for 300 metres, was originally a coal delivery basin for the nearby power station that closed in 1976. by Stephen Craven – 19 September 2015](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/69/36/4693645_1b1d9985_120x120.jpg)


![Detail of Electricity Substation. Seen through the railings at the south-east end.See also [[[310861]]] by Rich Tea – 12 January 2007](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/photos/31/08/310873_e0505ef7_120x120.jpg)








![Entrance to Leeds Caravan Storage. Does what it says on the gate. See also [[3620435]]. by Stephen Craven – 22 May 2016](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/96/36/4963640_276e7978_120x120.jpg)


