This page provides pointers to aspects of interest along the canal and its banks which can all be seen on a cruise or a walk along the canal. For convenience the items are generally listed in sequence from north to south. All the main places have separate pages which provide a guide to the canal, each describing a length - please click the links for the details.

Marple - junction, company wharf and warehouse, change bridges 1 & 2, boat garage
Hawk Green - Goyt Mill
High Lane - arm, boat garages, company wharf and warehouse, start of coal mining area

Middlewood - embankment, Ladybrook Valley
Middle Cale - flat top bridge 13 and others through the coal field
Higher Poynton - coal mining relics, Nelson arm, subsidence, foot bridge 16, site of filled in arm and towpath bridge, Red Acre aqueduct

Adlington - embankment; pierced fence posts; Styperson wharf
Whiteley Green - NCCC wharf, skew bridge 26
Bollington - drift mine, Clarence mill, stable, swing bridges, Discovery Centre, new footbridge 26A, embankment, coal staiths, aqueduct, river tunnel, Aqueduct Cottage, Beard's wharf, aqueduct, stable, company wharf, remains of wharf crane, Adelphi mill

Kerridge - Beehive wharf, site of 1912 breach, dry dock, 'Rally' road, change bridge 29

Hurdsfield - restored bridge 30
Macclesfield - company wharf, Hovis mill, boiler house, lengthman's cottage, copper smelting, bridge 41 planned as a tunnel

Gurnett/Sutton - change bridge 43, embankment, road/river under, skew bridge 44
Gawsworth - restored swing bridge 47
Oakgrove - Sutton reservoir and feeder, lengthman's cottage, swing bridge 49
North Rode - Bosley top lock, Bosley reservoir feeder
Bosley - new service block (pictured right), lock flight, side ponds, Mortar House, North Staffordshire Railway, Dane embankment and aqueduct, spillway with footbridge
Buglawton - remote waters, straight mile
Dane-in-Shaw - Vaudrey's Wharf (presently at risk!), iron trough aqueduct over Biddulph Line, embankment, pierced fence posts, spillway (to be restored)
Congleton Hightown - bridge 73 widening
Congleton - change bridges 76 & 77, iron trough aqueduct, company wharf and restored warehouse
Astbury - Watery Lane aqueduct
Scholar Green - Ramsdell Hall, railings, planned tunnel, marina,
Kent Green - Bird in Hand, tramways
Hall Green - stop locks; lock keepers' cottages
Church Lawton - change to T&M style
Red Bull - aqueduct over Liverpool Road, Pool Stock aqueduct over T&M, wharf
Harding's Wood - junction with T&M, sign post
Kidsgrove - railways, to Harecastle tunnel or the Cheshire flight

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