Canalside interests

This page provides pointers to aspects of interest along the 26¼ mile (plus 1¾ miles of the T&M Hall Green Branch) 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, commemorative sign post, company wharf and warehouse, service point, change bridges 1 & 2
• Hawk Green - Goyt Mill
• High Lane - arm, NCCC, 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; Ryles Wood wharf, Styperson
• Whiteley Green - NCCC wharf, skew bridge 26
• Bollington - drift mine, Clarence mill, stable, swing bridges, Discovery Centre, footbridge 26A, embankment, coal staiths, Palmerston Street aqueduct, river tunnel, Aqueduct Cottage, Beard's wharf, Grimshaw Lane aqueduct, stable, company wharf, remains of wharf crane, Adelphi mill

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

• Hurdsfield - restored bridge 30
• Macclesfield - company wharf, Hovis mill and boiler house, lengthman's cottage (br.38), copper smelting, bridge 41 and cutting planned as a tunnel through Richmond Hill

• 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, footbridge 48A, swing bridge 49
• North Rode - Bosley top lock, Bosley reservoir feeder
• Bosley - service block (pictured right), 12 lock flight, side ponds, Mortar House, North Staffordshire Railway, Dane embankment and aqueduct, spillway with footbridge, bridge 57
• 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
• 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, restored 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