SD5085 : Transport Trust Red Wheel
taken 6 years ago, near to Hincaster, Cumbria, England
The Transport Trust is Britain’s only charity dedicated to the preservation of all modes of transport and its infrastructure and the Red Wheel heritage plaque is the transport equivalent of an English Heritage Blue Plaque.
There is an Ordnance Survey bolt benchmark on the wall directly below the plaque (detail photograph SD5085 : Benchmark, Hincaster Tunnel).
The Lancaster Canal was originally planned to run from Westhoughton in Lancashire to Kendal in South Cumbria. The section around the crossing of the River Ribble was never completed. The southern part, from Johnson's Hillock to Wigan Top Lock, remains navigable as part of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The planned continuation to Westhoughton was never built.
The Lancaster canal is currently only open to navigation for 42 miles from Preston to Tewitfield near Carnforth. The northern terminus at Kendal can no longer be reached; the canal north of Tewitfield having been severed in three places by the construction of the M6 motorway, and by the A590 road near Kendal in the 1960s
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- Grid Square
- SD5085, 55 images (more nearby 🔍)
- Photographer
- Adrian Taylor (more nearby)
- Date Taken
- Monday, 8 June, 2020 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Monday, 19 December, 2022
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
SD 50923 85082 [1m precision]
WGS84: 54:15.5424N 2:45.2923W - Camera Location
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OSGB36: SD 50922 85081
- View Direction
- Northeast (about 45 degrees)
