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Rochdale Canal

The Rochdale Canal was built by Exuperius Picking Junior and opened on 17 September 1876. In Cecil Wood's "A Very Special Boat" he describes his experiences passing through Presbury Aqueduct during a thunderstorm.

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The Rochdale Canal is part of the Waterways of Mainland Britain and is made up of the Rochdale Canal (Main Line) and the Rochdale Canal (New Islington Marina Arm).

The navigational authority for this waterway is Canal & River Trust

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The Rochdale Canal is in Northern England, between Manchester and Sowerby Bridge, part of the connected system of the canals of Great Britain. Its name refers to the town of Rochdale through which it passes.

The Rochdale is a broad canal because its locks are wide enough to allow vessels of 14 feet (4.3 m) width. The canal runs for 32 miles (51 km) across the Pennines from the Bridgewater Canal at Castlefield Basin in Manchester to join the Calder and Hebble Navigation at Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire.

As built, the canal had 92 locks. Whilst the traditional lock numbering has been retained on all restored locks, and on the relocated locks, the canal now has 91. Locks 3 and 4 have been replaced with a single deep lock, Tuel Lane Lock, which is numbered 3/4.

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[Rochdale] 1804, the Rochdale Canal opened, providing the first link over the Pennines between Lancashire and Yorkshire. During the 19th century, Rochdale became one [Canal Street (Manchester)] village. The pedestrianised street, which runs along the west side of the Rochdale Canal, is lined with gay bars and restaurants. At night time, and in daytime [Ashton Canal] The Ashton Canal is a canal in Greater Manchester, England, linking Manchester with Ashton-under-Lyne. The Ashton leaves the Rochdale Canal at Ducie St [Castlefield] and the first railway warehouse opened here in 1831. The Rochdale Canal met the Bridgewater Canal at Castlefield in 1805 and in the 1830s they were linked [Bridgewater Canal] The canal is connected to the Manchester Ship Canal via a lock at Cornbrook; to the Rochdale Canal in Manchester; to the Trent and Mersey Canal at Preston [Leeds and Liverpool Canal] competing Rochdale Canal was under way and it was likely to offer a more direct journey to Liverpool via Manchester and the Bridgewater Canal. The same [Murder of Lindsay Rimer] evening of 7 November 1994. The following year, her body was found in the Rochdale Canal outside the town; she had been strangled. Despite repeated appeals for [List of canals in the United Kingdom] "completely" artificial canals (e.g. Rochdale Canal). Bedford and Milton Keynes Waterway: Connection from Grand Union Canal at Milton Keynes to the River [Hollingworth Lake] England. It was originally built as the main water source for the Rochdale Canal, but developed as a tourist resort from the 1860s. Hotels were built

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