An amazing footbridge by Castlefield Basin.

It's curved in both plan and elevation. Supported by a single arch, like a bowstring girder, but leaning upwards and towards the inside of the curve at 60 degrees. It depends on torsion for its structural integrity.

Day 70 - a long hard slog to outskirts of Hyde.

July 24th 2013
27 locks, 333 in total. From Castlefield Basin we briefly joined the Rochdale Canal, then turned right at Ducie Basin onto the Ashton and finally right again onto the Peak Forest Canal, heading southwards now on our return journey. The Rochdale 9, apparently only called that by boaters who haven't done the other 83 locks! The canal links Lancsashire and York ... read more

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