Leeds Liverpool Canal: The Lancaster Canal South Section

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	Wigan Top Lock
At the top of the Wigan flight of locks is a T-Junction. To the right of the locks is a bridge and the end of the old Lancaster Canal South Part. To the left is the canal up to Johnsons Hillock Locks. At the junction there are BW facilities for boaters.

View from Monk Hall Bridge #59 looking east	Looking from Monk Hall Bridge towards the junction of the Lancaster Canal South and the Leeds & Liverpool Canal	Junction of Leeds & Liverpool Canal (on right) with the Lancaster Canal. Monk Hall Bridge #59 straight ahead.	BWB facilities, shower, toilet, water, refuse and waste disposal. BWB key needed for these facilities.

Looking towards the end of the former Lancaster Canal section	Shedfield Bridge #59B	Milepost LPool 38 Miles Leeds 89¼ Miles	Leeds & Liverpool Canal Company Boundary Stone

Benchmark	Masons Mark	From Haigh Park Bridge #60	Sennicar Bridge #61

MilePost LPool 39 Miles Leeds 88¼ Miles	The Douglas Valley Formerly Pendlebury Row canal cottages	Pendlebury Bridge #61	Canal at Red Rock

Car parking by Red Rock Bridge #63	Red Rock Bridge #63	TV Mast on the hill	Aqueduct over disused Railway Line

MilePost LPOOL 40 Miles LEEDS 87¼ Miles	Wooded Canal	Arley Bridge #64	The moated Arley Hall

Reflections on the canal	Weavers Bridge #65	Sheep by the canal	MilePost LPool 41 Miles Leeds 86¼ Miles

Canal Reflections	Waterhouse Bridge #67	Waterhouse Bridge #67	View from Waterhouse Bridge #67
Adlington
Adlington was a coal mining town for many years. Ellerbeck Colliery was owned by the Adlington Coal Company. There is a large marina by White Bear Bridge.

Red House Bridge #68	Red House Bridge #68	MilePost LPool 42 Miles Leeds 85¼ Miles	The Bridge Adlington

White Bear Marina Adlington	White Bear Marina Adlington

Canal Reflections	Looking towards Rawlinson Bridge #71	MilePost LPool 43 Miles Leeds 84¼ Miles	Boat Hire

the old railway embankment from Ellerbeck Colliery	Idle Bridge #72	Chorley Rd #72a	Giles Bridge #73

milepost	L'Pool 44 Miles Leeds 83¼ Miles	#74A	#74A

#74A	Barracks Bridge #75	Barracks Bridge #75	Cowling Bridge #75A

L'Pool 45 Miles Leeds 82¼ Miles	Aqueduct	Aqueduct	Crosse Hall Bridge #76

Workhouse Bridge #77	Froom Street Bridge #77A	Bagganley Bridge #78	L'Pool 46 Miles Leeds 81¼ Miles
Botany Bay
Formerly known as Knowley Moss this area gained its new name with the coming of the canal. The area was a base for the navvies building the Lancaster Canal, locals likened it to the Botany Bay penal colony in Australia. After the canals construction mills were developed here. The Blackburn Railway viaduct which once crossed the canal here was demolished in 1968.

Lock & Quay Botany Bay	Botany Bay	Botany Bay Boatyard	Botany Bay

MilePost LPool 47 Miles Leeds 80¼ Miles	Johnsons Hillock	The Malthouse Farm
Walton Summit Branch
The original plan was for the north and south sections of the Lancaster Canal to be linked with an aqueduct over the River Ribble. This proved to be too expensive and an alternative was found. Instead of the stone aqueduct a wooden bridge was built in 1803 to link the two sections of canal via a network of tramroads. At Walton Summit the barges would stop at quaysides and their loads would be transfered to the tramway which would take the cargo down to the bridge and over to the Lancaster Canal. The branch canal between the junction with the Leeds & Liverpool Canal and the Summit terminus originally had a 259 yard tunnel which, following a collapse, is now two shorter tunnels with a cutting between them. The branch was last used in the 1930s and fell into disrepair. The building of the M61 and a housing estate has wiped out most of the canal but there are still parts of the canal remaining. The tunnel entrance, a culvert under the canal and some bridges remain.

The Junction with the Walton Summit Branch	From the Junction Bridge	The end of the canal seen from above	The end of the canal

Formerly the Navigation Inn	The line of the canal	Culvert	Canal Cutting

Inside the Tunnel	Tunnel Entrance	Moss Bridge	Moss Bridge

Moss Bridge	Former Canal Basin	Former Bridge	Summit Bridge




	Wigan top Lock \| Red Rock \| Adlington \| Botany Bay \| Walton Summit Branch

The Leeds & Liverpool Canal

Lancaster Canal South Section