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Pictures of the Peak Forest Canal,

Dukinfield to Marple.

This canal starts at Dukinfield junction with the Ashton canal. For the next seven miles it skirts the edge of civilisation, retaining the feel of a rural canal, yet with the city just around the corner. It last a Llangollen style lift bridge and two short tunnels, Woodley, 167 yards, and Hyde Bank, 308 yards, a third tunnel at Rose Hill of 100 yards was open out to leave a narrow cutting.

As it approaches Marple the canal crosses a deep valley on the very impressive Marple aqueduct. In the next mile it climbs 214 foot up sixteen locks of the Marple flight starting in the country and ending up amongst the streets of Marple. At the top of the locks the Macclesfield canal joins immediately from the south west.

Dukinfield junction	Trees, fields and flowers alongside much of the canal.	Hyde Bank tunnel
Marple aqueduct.		Marple locks.

Some pictures of this canal?

Pictures from Marple to Whaley Bridge

A history of this canal. / General information on the canal.

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A history of the Peak Forest Canal.

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