Dog Lane Aqueduct
Macclesfield Canal
April 2010
This is one of the three identical triplets including Stretton and Northwich - and Kynnersley if you stretch things a bit - call it three and a half !
Saturday 26 June 2010
Dog Lane Aqueduct
Dog Lane Aqueduct
Macclesfield Canal
April 2010
This is one of the three identical triplets including Stretton and Northwich - and Kynnersley if you stretch things a bit - call it three and a half !
Friday 25 June 2010
Dane Aqueduct
Dane Aqueduct
Macclesfield Canal
April 2010
This lofty beauty lacks the recognition it deserves.
Its single high brick arch carries the Macclesfield Canal high over the River Dane beneath Bosley Locks. Boaters will clock thje embankment but few dice with death and risk broken bones to reach the waters edge and view it from its finest perspective.
Thursday 24 June 2010
Clifton Aqueduct
Clifton Aqueduct
This is an impressive aqueduct by any standard. All the more so because it has stood empty for the last 60 years but seems as good as the day it was built, patiently awaiting the restoration of the canal.
For the time being it serves as a very handy bridge over the Irwell for walkers and cyclists wanting to enter the adjoining parkland.
Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal
April 2010This is an impressive aqueduct by any standard. All the more so because it has stood empty for the last 60 years but seems as good as the day it was built, patiently awaiting the restoration of the canal.
For the time being it serves as a very handy bridge over the Irwell for walkers and cyclists wanting to enter the adjoining parkland.
Wednesday 23 June 2010
Lumns Aqueduct
Lumns Aqueduct
Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal
April 2010
You could easily overlook this aqueduct, with its archway rooted out and the dry canal bed seemingly entering a narrows.
Tuesday 22 June 2010
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Wednesday 16 June 2010
Hawke Green Aqueduct
Hawke Green Aqueduct
Upper Peak Forest Canal
April 2010
Western portal
Eastern Portal
Tuesday 15 June 2010
Marple Aqueduct
Marple Aqueduct
Peak Forest Canal
Update:
I visited Marple Aqueduct on 12th April 2010 and grabbed the opportunity to take some photo's before the foliage obscrued what view there was. This is a near impossible aqueduct to photograph hence the montage approach.
Update:
I visited Marple Aqueduct on 12th April 2010 and grabbed the opportunity to take some photo's before the foliage obscrued what view there was. This is a near impossible aqueduct to photograph hence the montage approach.
A 105 yard masonry aqueduct, constructed by Benjamin Outram between 1794 and 1800 carrying the Peak Forest Canal 90 feet over the River Goyt on three graceful arches.
The structure is innovative in a number of ways, with its oval base piers being made of red sandstone sourced from the nearby Hyde Bank Quarry, and the upper sections using white masonry. The upper sections borrowed a construction technique from William Edwards in the shape of spandrills (drills through the spans!) piercing the haunches of the arches, reducing the weight of masonry.
The end result is a hugely elegant structure fully justifying its status as an Ancient Monument.
As at Chirk, a later railway viaduct runs parallel all but slightly higher than the canal aqueduct, detracting from its grandeur but even so, it has rightly been described as one of the finest monuments to the canal age.
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