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The Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal is a disused canal in Greater Manchester, England, built to link Bolton and Bury with Manchester. The canal, when fully opened, was 15 miles 1 furlong (24 km) long. It was accessed via a junction with the River Irwell in Salford. Seventeen locks were required to climb to the summit as it passed through.
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Bolton to Bury Canal Walk. Time / Distance: 2h30 / 5 miles; Another of the best canal walks near Manchester is along the Bury Canal. This walk starts at Moses Gate Country Park on Hall Lane in Bolton. There is a handy free parking spot right at the start of this walk.
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The history of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal. In a previous life the canal was used to carry coal from collieries in Pendleton and Radcliffe. The last colliery at Ladyshore closed in 1949, and the canal closed to traffic as recently as 1961. Nowadays, much of the canal is owned and managed by the Canal & River Trust in partnership with.
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53.5082°N 2.2959°W / 53.5082; -2.2959 The Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal is a disused canal in Greater Manchester, England, built to link Bolton and Bury with Manchester. The canal, when fully opened, was 15 miles 1 furlong long. It was accessed via a junction with the River Irwell in Salford. Seventeen locks were required to climb to the summit as it passed through Pendleton, heading.
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Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal Group Protection, raising awareness, and ultimate restoration of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal for multi-purpose leisure pursuits.
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The Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal was opened in 1797. It runs from Salford up the Irwell valley, crossing the River Irwell twice to reach Nob End. Here it climbs the spectacular Prestolee Locks and at its summit splits into two arms, one leading west to Bolton and one leading east to Bury.
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Between Bolton and Bury the canal was level and required no locks. Six aqueducts were built to allow the canal to cross the rivers Irwell and Tonge and several minor roads. The canal was commissioned in 1791 by local landowners and businessmen and built between 1791 and 1808, during the Golden Age of canal building, at a cost of £127,700 .
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Length: 15 miles 1 furlong (24.3 km) 17 locks from Salford to Nob End have a rise of 187ft (57m); the summit is level from Bolton to Bury Maximum size of boats: 68' x 14' 2" Principal traffic was coal from numerous canalside collieries 20 tramroads linked the canal to other collieries and works
Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal at... © David Dixon ccbysa/2.0 Geograph Britain and Ireland
The Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal is a disused canal in Greater Manchester, England, built to link Bolton and Bury with Manchester. The canal, when fully opened, was 15 miles 1 furlong (24 km) long. It was accessed via a junction with the River Irwell in Salford.
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The Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal was built between 1791 and 1808 at a cost of £127,700. It was originally planned to be for narrow boats but during construction it was redesigned as a broad canal. The canal was officially abandoned in 1961. A society was formed in 1987 with the intentions of restoring the canal so that it
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Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal Society Welcome! The Society's objectives are to restore, reconstruct, preserve, maintain and improve the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal from Nob End, Little Lever to the River Irwell in Salford, to Church Wharf in Bolton, and to Bury Bridges in Bury.
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In 1790 there was a proposal for a waterway to link Manchester with Bolton and Bury. In fact the canal was to start at the River Irwell in Salford. One of the land owners, Matthew Fletcher, was the original technical adviser and he was a mining engineer and coal mine owner. The Bill received its royal assent on 13 May 1791.
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1. Bridges 1 to 12 - Manchester & Salford Junction Canal 2. Bridges 13 to 26 - Salford to Agecroft 3. Bridges 27 to 39 - Agecroft to Clifton 4. Bridges 40 - 48 - Giant's Seat to Nob End 5. Bridges 51 to 63 - Nob End to Bolton 6. Bridges 64 to 74 - Nob End to Radcliffe 7. Bridges 73 to 89 - Radcliffe to Bury Waterway Routes Maps
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In 2020 the Canal and River Trust commissioned consultants to produce a feasibility study for restoring the top level of the canal. The study was part funded by the Canal Society and Bolton and Bury Councils, which is available on the Canal and River Trust website; Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal restoration: feasibility and impact study. In.