Quackers at Marple

In and out of the water at Top Lock Marina on the Peak Forest Canal.

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Alice on the Peak Forest Canal

Alice has just passed under bridge #11 and is heading home to Ashton under Lyne.

Alice is sister to Mary whom I showed you on 10th June.

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Outdoor Wednesday;
Water World Wednesday.

E is for Engineer Wharf

Engineer Wharf viewed from a train on the railway viaduct between Romiley and Marple.

Engineer Wharf is situated on the north side of the Peak Forest canal, close to the foot of Marple Locks, and it contained the canal company's workshops dating from 1825. These included a blacksmith's forge and a carpenter's workshop where replacement lock gates were made.

A Tithe Map of 1850 shows the wharf prior to the construction of Marple Viaduct by the Sheffield and Midland Railway Company, which carried their line over the river Goyt as well as over the wharf.

More information can be found on the PittDixon website.

The canal has just been carried over the valley of the river Goyt on an aqueduct after which it progresses through the Marple Locks, a series of 16 locks and one of the steepest flights in the country.

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Water World Wednesday,
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Engineer Wharf

Engineer Wharf is situated on the north side of the Peak Forest Canal, close to the foot of Marple Locks, and it contained the canal company's workshops dating from 1825.

This view was taken from a train crossing on the viaduct above.

More information about the history of the wharf can be found on the Industrial Heritage of Britain website.

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Marple Canal Basin

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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