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34 relations: Ancoats, Ashton-under-Lyne, Audenshaw, Beat Bank Branch Canal, Benjamin Outram, Bradford-with-Beswick, Bridgewater Canal, Canal, Canal & River Trust, Canals of the United Kingdom, Cheshire Ring, Dukinfield Junction, Fairbottom Branch Canal, Greater Manchester, Heaton Norris, History of the British canal system, Hollinwood Branch Canal, Hollinwood, Greater Manchester, Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Islington Branch Canal, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Lock (water navigation), Manchester, New Islington, North West England, Outer Pennine Ring, Peak Forest Canal, Rochdale Canal, South Pennine Ring, Stockport Branch Canal, Store Street Aqueduct, Swing bridge, Yorkshire, 2002 Commonwealth Games.
Ancoats
Ancoats is an inner city area of Manchester in North West England, next to the Northern Quarter, the northern part of Manchester city centre.
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Ashton-under-Lyne
Ashton-under-Lyne is a market town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England.
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Audenshaw
Audenshaw is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, on the River Tame south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and east of Manchester.
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Beat Bank Branch Canal
The Beat Bank Branch Canal was an abortive canal near Manchester, England.
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Benjamin Outram
Benjamin Outram (1 April 1764 – 22 May 1805) was an English civil engineer, surveyor and industrialist.
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Bradford-with-Beswick
Bradford-with-Beswick is an area in Manchester, England.
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Bridgewater Canal
The Bridgewater Canal connects Runcorn, Manchester and Leigh, in North West England.
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Canal
Canals, or navigations, are human-made channels, or artificial waterways, for water conveyance, or to service water transport vehicles.
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Canal & River Trust
Canal & River Trust was launched on 12 July 2012, taking over the guardianship of British Waterways (the previous government-owned operator) canals, rivers reservoirs and docks in England and Wales.
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Canals of the United Kingdom
The canals of the United Kingdom are a major part of the network of inland waterways in the United Kingdom.
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Cheshire Ring
The Cheshire Ring is a canal cruising circuit or canal ring, which includes sections of six canals in and around Cheshire and Greater Manchester in North West England: the Ashton Canal, Peak Forest Canal, Macclesfield Canal, Trent and Mersey Canal, Bridgewater Canal and Rochdale Canal.
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Dukinfield Junction
Dukinfield Junction is the name of the canal junction where the Peak Forest Canal, the Ashton Canal and the Huddersfield Narrow Canal meet near Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England.
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Fairbottom Branch Canal
The Fairbottom Branch Canal was a canal near Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester, England.
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Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2,782,100.
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Heaton Norris
Heaton Norris is a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.
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History of the British canal system
The British canal system of water transport played a vital role in the United Kingdom's Industrial Revolution at a time when roads were only just emerging from the medieval mud and long trains of packhorses were the only means of "mass" transit by road of raw materials and finished products.
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Hollinwood Branch Canal
The Hollinwood Branch Canal was a canal near Hollinwood, in Oldham, England.
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Hollinwood, Greater Manchester
Hollinwood is an area of Oldham, and an electoral ward of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England.
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Huddersfield Narrow Canal
The Huddersfield Narrow Canal is an inland waterway in northern England.
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Islington Branch Canal
The Islington Branch Canal was a short canal branch at Ancoats in north-west England, which joined the main line of the Ashton Canal between locks 1 and 2.
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Leeds and Liverpool Canal
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a canal in Northern England, linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool.
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Lock (water navigation)
A lock is a device used for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways.
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Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.
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New Islington
New Islington is an inner city area of Manchester, in North West England.
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North West England
North West England, one of nine official regions of England, consists of the five counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.
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Outer Pennine Ring
The Outer Pennine Ring is an English canal ring which crosses the Pennines between Manchester, Leeds and Castleford.
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Peak Forest Canal
The Peak Forest Canal is a narrow (gauge) locked artificial waterway in northern England.
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Rochdale Canal
The Rochdale Canal is a navigable broad canal in Northern England, between Manchester and Sowerby Bridge, part of the connected system of the canals of Great Britain.
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South Pennine Ring
The South Pennine Ring is an English canal ring which crosses the Pennines between Manchester and Huddersfield.
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Stockport Branch Canal
The Stockport Branch Canal was a 5-mile (8 km) branch of the Ashton Canal from Clayton to Stockport.
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Store Street Aqueduct
The Store Street Aqueduct in central Manchester, England, was built in 1798 by Benjamin Outram on the Ashton Canal.
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Swing bridge
A swing bridge is a movable bridge that has as its primary structural support a vertical locating pin and support ring, usually at or near to its center of gravity, about which the turning span can then pivot horizontally as shown in the animated illustration to the right.
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Yorkshire
Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.
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2002 Commonwealth Games
The 2002 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XVII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Manchester 2002 were held in Manchester, England, from 25 July to 4 August 2002.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_Canal
