Bridge 197A On Leeds Liverpool Canal – Riddlesden, UK - Moving Bridges on Waymarking.com

The canal is 127.25 miles long and flows from the inland woollen town of Leeds to the coastal sea port of Liverpool, crossing the Pennines along the way. Work on the canal started in 1770 and built in a number of sections and was finally completed in 1816.

The canal is no longer operational for commercial traffic but is popular with leisure boaters.

This steel counterweight swing bridge is also known as Granby swing bridge and carries Granby Lane over the canal next to the Marquis of Granby pub.

The Moveable Bridges of Britain website tells us “John Powell reports that the previous steel swing bridge was replaced around 1985 by a standard BW steel counterweighted swing bridge including power operation with power wedging, interlocked road barriers and traffic lights. This bridge is in a busy residential district and carries a significant amount of road traffic, and the bridge is owned by the County Council.”

It is unusual for a local council to own a canal swing bridge, but this probably reflects the volume of traffic that uses the bridge. The bridge is always locked in position across the canal and boat owners carry the sanitary station key to unlock the bridge when they wish to pass along the canal.

Bridge Type: Swing Bridge Span: 40 feet over a clear waterway width of 17 ft 6 inches. Pedestrian Traffic: yes Bicycle Traffic: yes Vehicular Traffic: yes Railway Traffic: no Built: Not listed

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