2012

SJ6541 : Audlem Top Lock and Coxbank Bridge, Cheshire

taken 11 years ago, near to Coxbank, Cheshire East, England

Audlem Top Lock and Coxbank Bridge, Cheshire
Audlem Top Lock and Coxbank Bridge, Cheshire
Looking north at Audlem Top Lock. Coxbank Bridge is No 75 across the Shropshire Union Canal. The bridge carries the lane leading to Kynsal Farm.

The flight of fifteen locks at Audlem raises (or lowers) the water level by a total of 93 feet, (about 28·4 metres) in one and three quarter miles (or 2·8 kilometres).
The Shropshire Union Canal

The Shropshire Union Canal (from Autherley to Nantwich) was engineered by Thomas Telford and opened in 1835. There are long straight sections of this canal which required either embankments or cuttings to avoid the need for locks. Although this was a more difficult procedure, the end route was shorter and the progress for horse drawn working boats could be maintained with (hopefully) no stoppages. The canal (formerly the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal) was opened at a time when railways were making serious inroads into the canal companies' businesses.

The current Shroppie north of Nantwich was formerly the Chester Canal, opened in 1779, and has wider locks and bridges. Boats up to nine feet in beam can still navigate this section; Telford's canal accommodates only narrowboats up to seven feet in beam.


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SJ6541, 101 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Roger D Kidd   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Thursday, 18 October, 2012   (more nearby)
Submitted
Monday, 27 July, 2020
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SJ 6593 4156 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:58.2184N 2:30.5255W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SJ 6594 4154
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North-northwest (about 337 degrees)
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