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Rochdale Canal

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Rochdale Canal

Canal running from Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire, England, to the Bridgewater Canal in Manchester. Opened in 1804, it uses the lowest pass through the Pennines. Its banks are lined with factories, many of them in ruins; it is now closed to navigation.
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Construction of the canal was sanctioned by an Act of Parliament in 1794 and when it finally opened to navigation in 1811, it became the third trans-Pennine waterway after Leeds-Liverpool and Rochdale canals.
Repaired reservoir now back in action by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
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Only the hotspots; MR BROCKLEBANK by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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