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Liverpool
0-3 miles

 

Bootle to Melling
3-12 miles

 

Maghull to Burscough
12- 24 miles

 

Rufford Branch

 

Burscough to Wigan
24 - 34 miles

 

Wigan
34 - 37 miles

 

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Former Lancaster Canal South
37-47miles

 

Johnson's Hillock to Cherry Tree
47 - 54 miles

 

Blackburn
54-59 miles


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The Leeds & Liverpool Canal

Stanley Dock Branch

It was always planned that the Leeds & Liverpool Canal should have a direct link to the docks and the River Mersey. The Stanley Dock branch of the canal was added in 1846 when the expansion of the railway disrupted the canals original route to Old Hall Street and the Princes Dock area. The four locks on this branch are large enough to allow the Liverpool flats access to the canal. It is from this terminus that the canal link will join canal to the South Docks. The locks were designed and supervised by Jesse Hartley, the stone work is typical of Hartley's docks. The original plan was to have the country's (and world's) first integrated dock, canal and railway depot. Instead two warehouses were built where the docks would have been. In 1900 the large tobacco warehouse was built on half of Stanley Dock. Liverpool's Collingwood Dock is reached via Stanley Dock.

City of Leeds

 

Leeds
127.25 miles

 

Shipley to Leeds
115 -125 miles

 

Stockbridge to Shipley
109 -115 miles

 

Skipton to Stockbidge
99 - 109 miles

 

Gargrave to Skipton
93 -99 miles

 

Greenberfield to Gargrave
87 - 93 miles

 

Foulridge to Greenberfield
82-87 miles

 

Burnley Lane to Foulridge Tunnel
75 -82 miles

 

Burnley
71-75 miles

 

Rishton, Church and Hapton
59 - 71 miles


Mainline Leeds & Liverpool Canal
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Originally there was a bridge over the junction so horses could walk straight over the Stanley Dock Branch. This bridge has been partially demolished and now only carries a gas pipeline over the junction. The sides of the bridge and the central island remain.

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Side of the former junction bridge At lock number 1 looking towards the main line the start of the Stanley Dock Branch the top gates on the top lock of the branch
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  Winding the paddles A square hole in the lock Railway Viaduct
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Under the viaduct looking towards the docks Lock Gate Paddle Winding Gear Leaving the locks Looking up the locks towards the railway viaduct
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The tobacco warehouse in stanley dock over looks the locks. From Locks to Docks The sloping concrete wall is the blocked off entrance to the Bridgewater Basin Stanley Dock Depot
where canal meets docks
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Stanley Dock Depot looking up towards the mainline Leaving the Canal Entering the Dock Towards the Canal Entrance
Stanley Dock

Stanley Dock is similar in design to Albert Dock. However Stanley Dock is almost completely empty, its warehouses stand unused. Half the dock was filled in and the huge tobacco warehouse was built on it at the turn of the 20th century.

 
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