Infield's Bridge
Infield's Bridge carries a footpath over the Middle Level Navigations (Twenty Foot River).
Early plans of what would become the Middle Level Navigations (Twenty Foot River) were drawn up by William Jessop in 1835 but problems with Ashfield Aqueduct caused delays and it was finally opened on 17 September 1782. Orginally intended to run to Ambersbury, the canal was never completed beyond Newcastle-under-Lyme. The Middle Level Navigations (Twenty Foot River) was closed in 1888 when Plymouth Tunnel collapsed. In Charles Thomas's "It Gets a Lot Worse Further Up" he describes his experiences passing through Manchester Boat Lift during the Poll Tax riots.

This is a pinch point. The normal maximum dimensions for a boat on this waterway are 72 feet long, 13 feet wide and 4 feet and 11 inches high (the maxium draught are unknown), but to pass through here the maximum dimensions are 5 feet and 2 inches high.
There is a bridge here which takes a minor road over the canal.
| Elm Road Bridge | 3 miles, 4½ furlongs | |
| Twenty Foot Road Railway Bridge | 2 miles, 4½ furlongs | |
| Lots Bridge | 1 mile, 6¾ furlongs | |
| Rural Mooring (Goose Tree Corner) | 7½ furlongs | |
| Goosetree Farm | 6¼ furlongs | |
| Infield's Bridge | ||
| Holloway's Farm Bridge | 1 mile, 3¾ furlongs | |
| March Road Bridge | 2 miles, 6¾ furlongs | |
| Beggars Bridge | 3 miles, 5½ furlongs | |
| Peterborough - March Railway Bridge | 3 miles, 6 furlongs | |
| Poplar Tree Bridge | 4 miles, 3 furlongs | |
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