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Cheshire Ring

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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. [1]

50 relations: Ancoats, Anderton with Marbury, Ashton Canal, Ashton-under-Lyne, Audenshaw, Bollington, Bosley, Bredbury, Bridgewater Canal, British Waterways, Canal, Canal ring, Canals of the United Kingdom, Cheshire, Cheshire Plain, Church Lawton, Clayton, Manchester, Congleton, Droylsden, Dukinfield, Greater Manchester, High Lane, History of the British canal system, Hyde, Greater Manchester, Inland Waterways Association, Kidsgrove, Lock (water navigation), Lymm, Macclesfield, Macclesfield Canal, Manchester, Manchester city centre, Manchester Piccadilly station, Manchester Ship Canal, Marple, Greater Manchester, Middlewich, Narrowboat, North West England, Northwich, Peak District, Peak Forest Canal, Poynton, Preston Brook, Rochdale Canal, Rode Heath, Romiley, Sale, Greater Manchester, Trent and Mersey Canal, Wheelock, Cheshire, Woodley, Greater Manchester.

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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Anderton with Marbury

Anderton with Marbury is a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Ashton Canal

The Ashton Canal is a canal in Greater Manchester in North West England.

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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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Bollington

Bollington is a small town and civil parish in Cheshire, England, to the east of Prestbury.

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Bosley

Bosley is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England.

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Bredbury

Bredbury is a suburban town within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, in Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester, east of Stockport and south-west of Hyde.

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Bridgewater Canal

The Bridgewater Canal connects Runcorn, Manchester and Leigh, in North West England.

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British Waterways

British Waterways, often shortened to BW, was a statutory corporation wholly owned by the government of the United Kingdom.

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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 ring

A canal ring is the name given to a series of canals that make a complete loop.

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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

Cheshire (archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west.

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Cheshire Plain

The Cheshire Plain is a relatively flat expanse of lowland almost entirely within the county of Cheshire in North West England.

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Church Lawton

Church Lawton is a small village and located in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire in England.

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Clayton, Manchester

Clayton is a suburb of the city of Manchester in North West England.

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Congleton

Congleton is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Droylsden

Droylsden is a town in Greater Manchester, England, to the east of Manchester city centre and west-southwest of Ashton-under-Lyne, with a population of 23,172.

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Dukinfield

Dukinfield is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, on the south bank of the River Tame opposite Ashton-under-Lyne, east of Manchester.

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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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High Lane

High Lane is a village 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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Hyde, Greater Manchester

Hyde is a town in Greater Manchester, England, which in 2011 had a population of 34,003.

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Inland Waterways Association

The Inland Waterways Association (IWA) was formed in 1946 as a registered charity in the United Kingdom to campaign for the conservation, use, maintenance, restoration and sensitive development of British Canals and river navigations.

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Kidsgrove

Kidsgrove is a town in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, near the Cheshire border.

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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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Lymm

Lymm is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England, which incorporates the hamlets of Booths Hill, Broomedge, Church Green, Deansgreen, Heatley, Heatley Heath, Little Heatley, Oughtrington, Reddish, Rushgreen and Statham.

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Macclesfield

Macclesfield is a market town and civil parish in Cheshire, England.

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Macclesfield Canal

The Macclesfield Canal is a canal in east Cheshire, England.

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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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Manchester city centre

Manchester city centre is the central business district of Manchester, England, within the boundaries of Trinity Way, Great Ancoats Street and Whitworth Street.

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Manchester Piccadilly station

Manchester Piccadilly is the principal railway station in Manchester, England.

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Manchester Ship Canal

The Manchester Ship Canal is a inland waterway in the North West of England linking Manchester to the Irish Sea.

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Marple, Greater Manchester

Marple is a small town within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, in Greater Manchester, England.

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Middlewich

Middlewich is a town in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Narrowboat

A narrowboat or narrow boat is a boat of a distinctive design, made to fit the narrow canals of the United Kingdom.

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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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Northwich

Northwich is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Peak District

The Peak District is an upland area in England at the southern end of the Pennines.

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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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Poynton

Poynton is a town in Cheshire, England, on the easternmost fringe of the Cheshire Plain south-southeast of Manchester, north of Macclesfield, and south of Stockport.

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Preston Brook

Preston Brook is a civil parish in the borough of Halton, a unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Cheshire.

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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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Rode Heath

Rode Heath is a small village in the civil parish of Odd Rode, within the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of in Cheshire, England near Alsager.

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Romiley

Romiley is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.

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Sale, Greater Manchester

Sale is a town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England.

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Trent and Mersey Canal

The Trent and Mersey Canal is a in the East Midlands, West Midlands, and north-west of England.

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Wheelock, Cheshire

Wheelock is a long village in the civil parish of Sandbach which is in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Woodley, Greater Manchester

Woodley is a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_Ring

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