Macclesfield Canal
The Macclesfield Canal is a canal in east Cheshire, England. There were various proposals for a canal to connect the town of Macclesfield to the national network from 1765 onwards, but it was not until 1824 that a scheme came to fruition.Photo: Mayalld, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tameside Hippodrome and Tameside Central Library.
Tameside Hippodrome
Theater building
Photo: Gerald England, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tameside Hippodrome is a 1262 seat theatre located in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England.
Cavendish Mill
Apartment building
Photo: ClemRutter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cavendish Mill is a Grade II* listed former cotton spinning mill in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England. It was built between 1884 and 1885 for the Cavendish Spinning Company by Potts, Pickup & Dixon of Oldham.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ashton-under-Lyne and Dukinfield.
Ashton-under-Lyne
Town
Ashton-under-Lyne, also known simply as Ashton, is a market town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. The population was 48,604 at the 2021 census.
Dukinfield
Town
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Dukinfield is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, on the south bank of the River Tame opposite Ashton-under-Lyne, 6.3 miles east of Manchester.
Guide Bridge
Suburb
Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Guide Bridge is an area of Audenshaw, west of Ashton-under-Lyne, in Greater Manchester, England. Historically part of Lancashire, Guide Bridge was built as a village around an eponymous bridge over the Ashton Canal.
Macclesfield Canal
- Type: Canal
- Description: canal in north west England
- Category: body of water
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Macclesfield Canal” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Macclesfield Canal”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قناة ماكليسفيلد”
- French: “Canal de Macclesfield”
- Japanese: “マクルズフィールド運河”
- Russian: “Макклсфилдский канал”
- Russian: “Маклсфилд”
- Swedish: “Macclesfield Canal”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ashton-under-Lyne railway station and Guide Bridge railway station.
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