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	Ashton Canal Information
		There used to be four other imprtant connections to branch canals: the Islington Branch Canal in Ancoats; the Stockport Branch Canal from Clayton to Stockport (Heaton Norris); the Hollinwood Branch Canal from Fairfield to Hollinwood; and the Fairbottom Branch Canal from Waterhouses to Fairbottom.
		With the opening of the Southern Penninne canals, the Ashton is now also part of the South Pennine Ring (Rochdale and Huddersfield Narrow) and the longest Pennine Ring of all (Leeds and Liverpool and Huddersfield Narrow).
		Today the Ashton Canal is increasingly valued by the communities through which it passes, and although many boaters still advise others to cover the Ashton during early hours, and not in school holidays, reports of problems often turn out to be the repeated telling of old stories.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Ashton_Canal (475 words)

	Rochdale Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It ran from Bugsworth in the Derbyshire hills to the Ashton Canal at Ashton.
		However, the link in Manchester between the Ashton Canal and the Bridgewater Canal was always kept open though it was barely navigable and was hardly used until pleasure boats became popular in the 1970's.
		In the centre of Littleborough the A58 re-appears and crosses the canal.
	www.canals.btinternet.co.uk /canals/rochdale.htm (4726 words)

	History of the Ashton Canal
		The Rochdale canal was not completed between Ancoats and the Bridgewater Canal at Castlefield, Manchester, until 1799 - the Duke of Bridgewater having for some years refused to allow the Rochdale company to have a junction with the Bridgewater Canal.
		The short link between Ashton Canal Basin at Piccadilly and the Rochdale Canal was not opened until 1800, when disputes about canal tolls and responsibility for paving the streets around the basins were resolved.
		Even so, the Ashton Canal took advantage of new opportunities and when the Sheffield, Ashton under Lyne and Manchester Railway opened "Ashton under Lyne and Hooley Hill" railway station at Guide Bridge in 1844, every train was met by a swift horse drawn fly boat to whisk passengers the rest of the way to Ashton.
	www.penninewaterways.co.uk /ashton/ac2.htm (1273 words)

	ashton canal - Granny Buttons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hollinwood Branch of the Ashton Canal ran from Fairfield in...
		The Ashton Canal is a canal built in Greater Manchester in Northern England...
		In Manchester it connects the Ashton Canal to the Bridgewater Canal, and hence connects to all...
	granny-buttons-swicki.eurekster.com /ashton+canal (671 words)

	deseretnews.com \| 2 divers drown in canal
		Ashton told Tami not to worry unless she didn't hear from the brothers in two hours.
		Ashton and B.J. made it down the 100-foot incline on the tunnel's west side to the bottom of the tunnel before something went wrong.
		Ashton was a soccer star; he was the Deseret Morning News 3A state MVP in 1998 and helped lead Lehi High School to state championships in '97 and '98, then went on to play for Weber State University.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,515036080,00.html (1006 words)

	Ashton Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There used to be four other important connections to branch canals: the Islington Branch Canal in Ancoats; the Stockport Branch Canal from Clayton to Stockport (Heaton Norris); the Hollinwood Branch Canal from Fairfield to Hollinwood; and the Fairbottom Branch Canal from Waterhouses to Fairbottom.
		With the opening of the Southern Penninne canals, the Ashton is now also part of the South Pennine Ring (Rochdale and Huddersfield Narrow) and the longest Pennine Ring of all (Leeds and Liverpool and Huddersfield Narrow).
		Today the Ashton Canal is increasingly valued by the communities through which it passes, and although many boaters still advise others to cover the Ashton during early hours, and not in school holidays, reports of problems often turn out to be the repeated telling of old stories.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ashton_Canal (734 words)

	Rochdale Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It canal runs for 32 miles (51 kilometres) across the Penines from the Bridgewater Canal at Castlefield Basin in Manchester to the Hebble Navigation at Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire.
		Most of the canal (apart from a short profitable section in Manchester linking the Bridgewater and Ashton Canals) was closed in 1952 (the last complete journey having taken place in 1937) and by the mid '60s the remainder was almost unusable.
		In Manchester it connects the Ashton Canal to the Bridgewater Canal, and hence connects to all the canals on the west side of England, including the Lancaster Canal, Trent and Mersey Canal and Macclesfield Canal; and the western ends of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and Huddersfield Narrow Canal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rochdale_Canal (619 words)

	Ashton Under Lyne - one of the nine towns of Tameside
		Ashton is the entertainment centre for Tameside, being easily accessible from all the other towns, and not far away from the city of Manchester.
		Portland Basin, the coming together of three canals is a popular area for family based activities, such as picnics and short walks.There is a permanent museum based in the rebuilt Ashton Canal Warehouse, displaying aspects of Tameside's history, and a nearby Heritage Trail.
		Town Hall in Ashton hosts various events, including coffee mornings and jumble sales, but it is mostly devoted to housing the "Museum of the Manchesters", an exhibition about the Manchester Regiment, calling upon effects dealing with each of the senses.
	www.virtual-tameside.net /ashton.html (804 words)

	Rochdale Canal, Ashton Canal and Leeds & Liverpool Canals
		Not until the rebirth of canal cruising in the late 1970s, this time as a leisure pursuit, was it possible to restore the canal to boat traffic.
		It was never the most prepossessing of canals, as it passed, and still does, through the industrial heartland of Victorian Manchester, with all of its factories and industrial spoilage, and through the housing estates of the poor unfortunates who worked in those factories.
		A short walk from the canal at Fairfield is the Moravian Settlement, a secluded other-world settlement established by Protestants in the 15th century.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /transport/canals3.html (808 words)

	Huddersfield Narrow Canal - Earthworks and Tunnels
		He intended to leave the numbers and locations of locks to be decided at the construction stage and in fact, forty-two were built in Yorkshire and thirty-two on the Lancashire side, the average fall being to 10 feet 6 inches per lock.
		Outram stressed that the route was 'the shortest communication yet between Manchester and the eastern navigations and it will pass through a country full of manufacturers…and by the vicinity of the proposed canal to the river the mills will receive their articles free from land carriage to the canal'.
		Moreover, the Engineer was aware of the millowners' fears for their water supplies, hence reservoirs to feed the canal were to be situated only in large and deep valleys where 'collected waters frequently produced torrents of floods'.
	www.huddersfield1.co.uk /huddersfield/narrowcanal/huddscanalroute.htm (504 words)

	Ashton Canal & Peak Forest Canal from Canal Junction
		Dukinfield Junction with the Peak Forest Canal to Ducie Junction with the Rochdale Canal.
		An early success of the canal restoration movement, this thoroughly urban canal climbs west-east to Ashton-under-Lyne on the edge of the Manchester conurbation.
		Typical of the fragmented processes of the Canal Mania years, there was a separate Act (1792) for the 6 miles of the Manchester and Ashton-under-Lyne Canal and its 11 miles of now derelict branches.
	www.canaljunction.com /canal/ashton.htm (585 words)

	History of the Peak Forest Canal
		The main objective of the canal was to improve the transportation of bulk manufactured goods and raw materials, particularly limestone from the quarries at Dove Holes, high up in the Peak Forest.
		Construction of the canal was authorised by an Act of Parliament (Act: 34 GIII c26) and given the Royal Assent on Friday 28th March 1794.
		In the case of the Peak Forest Canal, an ample supply of stone was readily available in the district and this was used almost exclusively in the construction of lock chambers and bridges.
	www.marple-uk.com /PeakFor.htm (1418 words)

	CANALMAPS ARCHIVE
		A Plan of the Navigable Canal from Birmingham in the County of Warwick to the Canal at Autherley near W.Hampton in the County of Stafford.
		A Plan of the Navigable Canal from Birmingham in the County of Warwick, to the Canal at Aldersley, near Wolverhampton in the County of Staffordwith a Collateral Cut to the Coal Mines at Wednesbury.
		A Plan of the Proposed Canal from the Oxford Canal at Braunston in the County of Northampton to join the River Thames at New Brentford in the County of Middlesex to be called the Grand Junction Canal with the Collateral Branches, from the said Canal to Da Grand Junction Canal.
	www.canalmaps.net /List.htm (6303 words)

	Canal Society
		The Manchester and Stockport Canal Society has been formed to promote the regeneration of what was the Stockport Arm of the Ashton Canal.
		It’s aims are to rebuild the line of the canal and restore it to full navigational use for the benefit of local people and visitors.
		After regeneration of the canal itself the local environment will improve because of the green corridor that is produced.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /nb.jemsabi/html/canal_society.html (426 words)

	Waterways News
		Ashton Canal, in Manchester, which had to be closed on 19 April after a nearby derelict mill collapsed into the water, re-opened on Saturday 30th.
		Around eight metres of canal wall had collapsed too under the weight of the mill debris.
		Meanwhile the £314 million project to regenerate the Ashton Canal corridor continues.
	www.canalia.com /waterwaysdirectory/ashton2.htm (233 words)

	Canals in the Borough of Tameside (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		From Portland Basin the Ashton Canal stretches for nearly 11 km (7 miles) to the west and ends at its junction with the Rochdale Canal at Ducie Street junction in Central Manchester.
		The Ashton Canal was opened early in 1797, at a total cost of £216,000 and was originally known as the Manchester and Ashton Canal.
		The 3rd Duke of Bridgewater is credited with having built the first modern English canal, and in the period of 'canal mania' that followed, merchants and traders in the Ashton area were quick to realise the economic advantages of a canal from Manchester to Ashton.
	www.tameside.gov.uk /leisure/new/canals1.htm (733 words)

	30-3-05 Ashton canal wins award : British Waterways
		Canals Then and Now project is a joint partnership with British Waterways, Tameside Museums and Galleries Service and the East Manchester Community Boat Project, to reach out in a more meaningful way and with great impact to children in the local community.
		The Ashton Canal is six miles long and is an important part of the waterway network through Manchester, going from Ducie Street in Manchester, where it connects to the Rochdale Canal, through to Ashton-under-Lyne where it meets the Peak Forest Canal and Huddersfield Narrow Canal at Portland Basin.
		British Waterways cares for a 2,000-mile network of historic canals and navigable rivers throughout Britain, working to provide a sustainable future for the inland waterways and generate maximum benefit and enjoyment to all from this unique environmental and leisure resource.
	www.britishwaterways.co.uk /newsroom/archive/ashton_canal_wins_award.html (462 words)

	About the Hollinwood Canal
		The Ashton Canal was proposed as the Manchester Ashton and Oldham Canal and opened in 1797.
		The opening of the Ashton Canal was followed two years later by that of the Peak Forest Canal, constructed mainly to carry Derbyshire limestone, joining the Ashton Canal at Dukinfield Junction.
		It may be possible to divert the canal slightly to the north at Littlemoss and construct an aqueduct where the motorway is at a lower level.
	www.hollinwoodcanal.co.uk /canal.htm (692 words)

	math lessons - Ashton-under-Lyne
		Ashton-under-Lyne is a town in Greater Manchester with a population of 44,400 (2001 estimate).
		Ashton is the administrative headquarters of the borough of Tameside, and is located north-east of Manchester.
		The town was formerly the centre of a large textile (wool spinning) and coal mining industry.
	www.mathdaily.com /lessons/Ashton-under-Lyne (147 words)

	Information for Boaters - Huddersfield Canal Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On the west side, between Ashton and Diggle, the locks are numbered 1w to 32w.
		A windlass, which is required for all paddles, is also required to operate hydraulic tail gates at Locks 1w and 2w, Ashton, a mechanical tail gate at Lock 21w.
		The Huddersfield Broad Canal is approximately 4 miles long and can usually be completed in 3 to 4 hours.
	www.hcanals.demon.co.uk /canal/boating.htm (835 words)

	Montgomery Canal from Canal Junction
		The Montgomery canal as it is known today runs for 38 miles from a junction with the Llangollen Canal near Ellesmere in Shropshire to Newtown in Montgomeryshire, now part of Powys.
		Consequently a new canal company was formed in 1815 to finish the canal line the remaining seven miles right into Newtown, a section that subsequently became known, confusingly, as the Western Branch whilst the original bit with an arm to Guilsfield became the Eastern Branch.
		Traffic on the canal was mainly local and self contained, much of it centred on the limestone quarries and limekilns at Pant and Llanymynech with coal coming onto the canal from local pits on the Llangollen Canal.
	www.canaljunction.com /canal/montgomery.htm (1121 words)

	Clicking on Canals No 40 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There seems to be a great deal of interest centred around the Ashton canal and this month we have two more sites in addition to the three or four sites that cover it in some detail and The Stockport Branch of the Ashton Canal www.jemsabi.uklinux.net which was mentioned on this page in March 2003.
		The first of the new sites is the Manchester & Stockport Canal Society http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nb.jemsabi/html/canal_society.html a society that was formed on the 3rd February 2004 for the sole purpose of restoring the Stockport Arm of the Ashton canal to its head of navigation in Stockport.
		The other Ashton Canal website is that of the Hollinwood Canal Society www.hollinwoodcanal.co.uk which aims to see the restoration of the canals within Daisy Nook Country Park, the re-connection of the Hollinwood Branch with the Ashton Canal and the creation of a new canal link through to the Rochdale Canal.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Clicking-on-Canals-No-40.html (801 words)

	Ashton, Peak Forest and Macclesfield Canals
		The Stockport Branch of the Ashton Canal : An arm of the canal that was filled in in 1962.
		Hollinwood Canal Society : The Hollinwood Branch of the Ashton Canal ran from Fairfield in Droylsden, through Littlemoss and Daisy Nook Country Park to Hollinwood.
		Manchester and Stockport Canal Society : The society was formed on the 3rd February 2004 for the sole purpose of restoring the Stockport Arm of the Ashton canal to its head of navigation in Stockport
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Ashton-Peak-Forest-and-Macclesfield-Canals.html (1864 words)

	Reed Hotel Boats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This canal is well worth travelling on for the basin at Bugsworth, for the miles that cling to the side of the mountains and for the locks and aqueduct at Marple.
		The canal was completed by 1800 except for the Marple flight of locks.
		In 1830 the Macclesfield canal was completed to run from the top of Marple locks to the Trent and Mersey canal near Harecastle tunnel.
	www.reedboats.co.uk /routes/canals/pea.html (572 words)

	Walks
		At the lock it is necessary to cross the canal (due to towpath gaps aheadin Rice City Pond) and climb the hill to a trail junction.
		After that, the canal is watered, but silted in for some 0.33 miles until a breach in the towpath (to the left) allows the river to pour in.
		The dam was skirted by a short canal which left the river on the right bank above the dam and reentered the river at the mill.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/davidaudreybarber/walks.htm (1783 words)

	20-04-2005 WM Canal : British Waterways
		Canal enthusiasts, members of the public and British Waterways staff took to the towpaths recently to give canals in the West Midlands a spring clean.
		Grappling hooks and rakes were used to clear years of accumulated rubbish from the canal bed and fill a total of seven skips.
		As well as being the ideal way to spruce up the canals before the start of the boating season it was also a great chance for our people who work in the office to get out on the canal bank and find out a little bit more about the work that goes on there.
	www.britishwaterways.co.uk /newsroom/stories/wm_canal.html (607 words)

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