Clifton Aqueduct

Clifton Aqueduct

Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal

April 2010

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.

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.

Clifton Aqueduct

Clifton Aqueduct

Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal

One of three aqueducts built on the Manchester Bolton and Bury canal by Charles Roberts and John Nightingale in 1796.

http://www.salford.gov.uk/clifton-aqueduct-05-d71-web2.jpg

This stone structure with it's three brick arches represents a second crossing of the River Irwell for the canal, and is now a grade 2 listed monument. Like its counterpart, the Prestolee Aqueduct, this structure stand patiently waiting for the ongoing restoration project to reach it and return boats to it's navigation channel.

Prestolee Aqueduct

Prestolee Aqueduct
Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal

This is one of two surviving aqueducts on the Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal, built in the late 1790's to cross the River Irwell.

The structure is built of stone and its four spans extend for 185 ft, carrying a broad 16ft 6in wide water channel. This is now a listed monument (Grade 2) and is patiently awaiting reconnection to the main system.

Damside Aqueduct

Damside Aqueduct
Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal

The Damside Aqueduct is the missing structure on the Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal, demolished in 1965 for a road and river crossing at Darcy Lever.

http://www.mbbcs.org.uk/gallery/pages/14.damside-air.htm

I can only find this arial shot of the aqueduct, which will have to be rebuilt if the full canal restoration is ever to take place.