The 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...
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Forest Canal. There used to be four other important connections to branch canals: the Islington Branch Canal in Ancoats; the Stockport Branch Canal from...
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List of places in Greater Manchester (section Canals)
Leeds and Liverpool Canal Manchester Ship Canal Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal Peak Forest Canal Rochdale Canal Stockport Branch Canal Ashworth Moor Reservoir...
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Stockport Georgians A.F.C. Stockport R.U.F.C The Stockport air disaster Stockport Branch Canal Stockport Castle Stockport College Stockport Express, the local...
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linking to other nearby canals and navigable rivers. Grand Union Canal (Slough Branch): Extending Slough Arm of the Grand Union Canal south to join the River...
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Reddish (redirect from Reddish, Stockport)
Heaton Norris border, but are now firmly inside Heaton Chapel. The Stockport Branch Canal passed through Reddish and opened in 1797. It seems to have had...
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town was connected to the national canal network by the 5 miles (8.0 km) of the Stockport branch of the Ashton Canal opened in 1797 which continued in...
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The Beat Bank Branch Canal was an abortive canal near Manchester, England. It was to leave the Stockport Branch Canal in South Reddish and it was to be...
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Broadstone Mill, Reddish (category Textile mills in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport)
double cotton spinning mill on the eastern bank of the Stockport Branch Canal in Reddish, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. Construction of the twin...
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Park to the Hollinwood area of Oldham, with a branch from Daisy Nook to the Fairbottom Branch Canal. The canal was mainly used for the haulage of coal until...
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Salford Junction Canal Mersey and Irwell Navigation Peak Forest Canal Stockport Branch Canal Topics Parliamentary constituencies and Members of Parliament Crime...
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Salford Junction Canal Mersey and Irwell Navigation Peak Forest Canal Stockport Branch Canal Topics Parliamentary constituencies and Members of Parliament Crime...
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However, the problems of restoring this canal are far more challenging than those of restoring the Stockport Branch Canal. Not only is it suffering from the...
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for a canal from the Peak Forest via Rudyard to Endon on the Caldon Branch, with a separate branch or railway from Poynton and Norbury to Stockport were...
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High Lane, Greater Manchester (category Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport)
the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, on the Macclesfield Canal, 5 miles (8 km) from Stockport. High Lane lies in the Marple...
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point there was a suggestion that Clegg Hall, which is near the Rochdale Canal, could be turned into a museum, but this proved too expensive. Pennine Heritage...
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History of Reddish (category History of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport)
Ashton Canal and the Stockport Branch Canal were built to join Manchester and Stockport to the coal mines in Oldham and Ashton-under-Lyne. The branch was...
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act of Parliament, the Bridgewater Canal Act 1766 (6 Geo. 3. c. 17) for a branch canal between Sale Moor and Stockport which was to follow the valley of...
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upon both sides and crowning the ridge of one of the outlying spurs which branch from Manchester, the neighbouring "backbone of England". The whole place...
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Ashton Canal (connecting Manchester, Ashton, Stalybridge and Stockport); the Peak Forest Canal, which ran from Ashton to Whaley Bridge, and which had a plateway...
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However, Stockport's predominant industries of the 19th century were the cotton and allied industries. The Stockport branch of the Ashton Canal terminated...
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his father remarried in 1838. Houldsworth bought farmland by the Stockport Branch Canal in Reddish in the 1860s and built Reddish Mill, then the largest...
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Retrieved 7 March 2024. Historic England. "Ashton Canal towpath bridge over junction with Stockport Branch Canal (Grade II) (1197794)". National Heritage List...
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the Manchester to Preston Line which opened in 1841 and where there was a branch line to Horwich. Mineral lines served the various collieries. The main road...
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