Ashton Canal information

The Ashton Canal is a canal in Greater Manchester, England, linking Manchester with Ashton-under-Lyne. The Ashton leaves the Rochdale Canal at Ducie St...

with the Ashton Canal at Whitelands Basin in Ashton-under-Lyne. It crosses the Pennines by means of 74 locks and the Standedge Tunnel. The canal was first...

nine locks opened in 1800 and boats using the Ashton Canal could reach Manchester. Officially, the canal opened in 1804, but construction work continued...

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Lancashire, in the mid-19th century Droylsden grew as a mill town on the Ashton canal. Beginning in the early 1930s, Droylsden's population expanded rapidly...

Dukinfield in Greater Manchester, where it makes a junction with the Ashton Canal at the southern end of the Tame Aqueduct (grid reference SJ934984) through...

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Stockport Branch Canal was a 5-mile (8 km) branch of the Ashton Canal from Clayton to Stockport. The canal left the main line of the Ashton Canal at Stockport...

The Wooden Canal Boat Society (WCBS) is a waterway society and a registered charity in England, UK, based at Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester. The...

The Islington Branch Canal was a short canal branch at Ancoats in north-west England, which joined the main line of the Ashton Canal between locks 1 and...

northern end would be isolated under plans to close the Ashton Canal and the lower Peak Forest Canal in the early 1960s, but vigorous campaigning and a growing...

is the name of the canal junction where the Peak Forest Canal, the Ashton Canal and the Huddersfield Narrow Canal meet near Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater...

1502 The Hollinwood Branch Canal was a canal near Hollinwood, in Oldham, England. It left the main line of the Ashton Canal at Fairfield Junction immediately...

giving Tameside its name. The Ashton Canal, the Hollinwood Branch Canal, the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, and the Peak Forest Canal all run through the borough...

Lancaster Canal, Sankey Canal, Bridgewater Canal, Rochdale Canal, Ashton Canal and Manchester Ship Canal. The major settlements in the ceremonial county are...

Guide Bridge was built as a village around an eponymous bridge over the Ashton Canal. Industries included Scott & Hodgson Ltd which had an engine shop near...

had a thriving canal network, with links to the Ashton Canal, Rochdale Canal the Peak Forest Canal and Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal. The fustian trade...

to service the new London Road Station. It had its own branch to the Ashton Canal. This warehouse was built of brick with stone detailing. It had cast...

Bridgewater Canal – Engineer James Brindley 1772 – Chester Canal 1777 – Trent and Mersey Canal – Engineer James Brindley 1796 – Ashton Canal 1800 – Peak...

West England: the Ashton Canal, Peak Forest Canal, Macclesfield Canal, Trent and Mersey Canal, Bridgewater Canal and Rochdale Canal. Because it takes...

1794, construction of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal (then known as the Huddersfield Canal), linking Ashton-under-Lyne and Huddersfield via a tunnel, was...

site. Ancoats Hospital was located on Old Mill Street, adjacent to the Ashton Canal. This has been closed to patients for some time, and is currently under...

reputation as being "a crime-ridden place stuck between the Rochdale and Ashton canals". It was one of several millennium village projects around seeking to...

ring. Rochdale Canal Calder and Hebble Navigation Huddersfield Broad Canal Huddersfield Narrow Canal Ashton Canal The Rochdale Canal was authorised in...