Marple Canal Basin lies at the end of the Macclesfield canal.
The Macclesfield, one of the last narrow canals to be built was approved by Act of Parliament in April 1826. Thomas Telford surveyed the canal and construction was engineered by William Crosley. The completed canal was opened on 9th November 1831 at a cost of £320,000. It was bought out by the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincoln Railway in 1847. With nationalisation in 1947 it passed to the Docks & Inland Waterways Board with commercial carrying finishing only in the 1960s shortly before British Waterways was formed. The canal runs from Marple Junction with the Peak Forest Canal in the north 26¼ miles to the stop lock at Hall Green near Kidsgrove. Thanks to Telford's design for commercial traffic the Macclesfield Canal has a very shallow and tapered bottom. The deep channel is just wide enough for two boats to pass in the centre making mooring other than at wharves "challenging".
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ReplyDeleteGreat photo and thanks for the interesting history.
ReplyDeleteI was once in a place which has the same kind of canal, can't remember where it was...but it was a beautiful place, just like this one in the photo.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous spot. If it were me, I'd hope that building in the background was a pub. Nothing like a warm fire and a cold drink to take the chill of the day off.
ReplyDeleteLovely capture. Happy sky watching.
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