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Peak Forest Canal (Whaley Bridge Branch)

 
 

The Peak Forest Canal (Whaley Bridge Branch) was built by Thomas Telford and opened on January 1 1835. The canal joined the sea near Polecorn. The 8 mile section between Fife and Lisburn was closed in 1955 after a breach at Bury. In Charles Hunter's "By Handcuff Key and Windlass Across The Pennines" he describes his experiences passing through Lancaster Aqueduct during the General Strike.

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The Peak Forest Canal (Whaley Bridge Branch) is a narrow canal and is part of the Peak Forest Canal. It runs for 4 furlongs from Whaley Bridge Transhipment Warehouse (which is a dead end) to Whaley Bridge Branch Junction (where it joins the Peak Forest Canal (Upper)).

The maximum dimensions for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway are 72 feet long and 7 feet wide. The maximum headroom is 6 feet and 5 inches. The maximum draught is 4 feet and 5 inches.

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Whaley Bridge Transhipment Warehouse
End of navigation
Whaley Bridge Wharf a few yards 0 locks
Whaley Bridge Services ¼ furlongs 0 locks
Whaley Bridge Winding Hole ¼ furlongs 0 locks
Whaley Bridge Visitor Moorings ¾ furlongs 0 locks
Supermarket Bridge No 37A 2½ furlongs 0 locks
Whaley Bridge Branch Junction
Junction with Whaley Bridge Branch		 4 furlongs 0 locks
 
 
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Wikipedia has a page about Peak Forest Canal

The Peak Forest Canal is a narrow (7-foot (2.13 m) gauge) locked artificial waterway in northern England. It is 14.8 miles (23.8 km) long and forms part of the connected English/Welsh inland waterway network.

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[Peak Forest] and the village was known as the Gretna Green of Derbyshire. The Peak Forest Canal, although originally aiming for the limestone quarries in Great Rocks [Macclesfield Canal] which alters the level by 118 feet (36 m). The canal runs from a junction with the Peak Forest Canal at Marple in the north, in a generally southerly [Whaley Bridge] The Peak Forest Canal and basin were built in the 1790s and opened on 1 May 1800. An important Grade 2 listed building at the head of the Peak Forest Canal [Canals in Cheshire] Canal – Engineer James Brindley 1772 – Chester Canal 1777 – Trent and Mersey Canal – Engineer James Brindley 1796 – Ashton Canal 1800 – Peak Forest Canal [Peak Forest Tramway] and Chinley, where much of it was taken by boat along the Peak Forest Canal and the Ashton Canal to Manchester and beyond. The remaining limestone was put [Ashton Canal] junction with the Peak Forest Canal. There used to be four other important connections to branch canals: the Islington Branch Canal in Ancoats; the Stockport [Cromford and High Peak Railway] Cromford and High Peak Railway (C&HPR) was a standard-gauge line between the Cromford Canal wharf at High Peak Junction and the Peak Forest Canal at Whaley Bridge [Cheshire Ring] West England: the Ashton Canal, Peak Forest Canal, Macclesfield Canal, Trent and Mersey Canal, Bridgewater Canal and Rochdale Canal. Because it takes boats [Peak District] Dark Peak feed the Macclesfield, Ashton, and Huddersfield Narrow Canals and waters from the White Peak fed the Cromford Canal. The Peak Forest Canal brought
 
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