Huddersfield Narrow Canal Bridge 100 – 2000 – Stalybridge, UK
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dtrebilc
N 53° 28.937 W 002° 03.402
30U E 562597 N 5926336
This bridge that carries Back Grosvenor Street over the Huddersfield Narrow Canal was built in 2000 as part of restoration work on the canal.
Waymark Code: WMFW4D
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/06/2012
Views: 1
This canal is one of three that crosses the Pennine Hills and built to provide transport between Huddersfield in Yorkshire and Ashton-Under-Lyne in Lancashire.
Work started on it in 1794 and partly due to the need to construct the longest canal tunnel in the United Kingdom it was completed 17 years later in 1811.
Although in the early days the canal was profitable, competition from railways and roads meant that it had closed by 1944.
During the 1970s leisure boating in the U.K. had become popular and there were various campaigns to re-open canals that had lain derelict for a number of years.
Work on restoring this canal started in 1981 and was completed in 2001. In urban settings such as the centre of the town of Stalybridge parts of the canal had been totally filled in and built over. A number of bridges in Stalybridge were rebuilt using funding from the Millennium Commission Lottery Fund.
This bridge, the 100th from the start of the canal at Huddersfield was one of these bridges. It is next to the bottom gates on lock 6W in Armentieres Square. The new bridge was made wide enough to also cover the towpath. This part of the canal had been totally filled in and a car park placed on top of it.
The keystone on each side of the bridge has the year 2000 carved into it and on the east wall of the bridge is a lottery commission plaque. On the same wall is a blue plaque indicating the bridge was re-opened on 28th May 2001 by The Rt. Hon. Lord Pendry of Stalybridge, Member of Parliament for Stalybridge and Hyde 1970 – 2001.
The west side of the bridge has another blue plaque indicating that it was opened on 28th May 2001 by Councillor S.R. Oldham C.B.E. Executive Leader of Tameside Council and that the bridge is named Oldham’ s Bridge in his honour.
Date built or dedicated as indicated on the date stone or plaque.: 2000
Date stone, plaque location.: On the arch keystone of both sides of the bridge
Road, body of water, land feature, etc. that the bridge spans.: The Huddersfield Narrow Canal
Website (if available): [Web Link]
Parking (safe parking location): N 53° 28.934 W 002° 03.469
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