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This page provides an index to the bridges along the canal. It also includes aqueducts. Some bridges have pages devoted to them - they are highlighted as links.  Note that many bridges have had more than one name over the years; these are divided by a '/'. Bridges were usually named after the adjacent land owner or tenant. The changing names may reflect a change in ownership or tenancy. All the swivel bridges are named as such, however, all but three now exist only as narrows with no bridge deck. The three operational swivel bridges (47, 49, 90) are marked as such. # indicates that there is no trace of the bridge remaining.

1

Junction Side (change line)

51

Gee's / Cowley Farm

2

Church Lane (change line)

52

Crow Hole / Crow Holt

-

Bowden's Swivel

53

Lockett's

3

Eccles

54

Daintry's Road

4

Shipley's or Shepley's

55

Peckerpool Wood / Buxton Road (A54)

5

Barns Fold

56

Swindell's

6

Owl Clough / Clough / Broadhurst

-

North Staffordshire Railway (Churnet Valley line)

7

Hyde's

-

Dane Aqueduct

8

Bancroft's

-

Spill way (foot)

9

Windlehurst / Back Lane

57

Old Driving Lane

10

Marriott's

58

Wallworth's

11

High Lane (A6)

59

Lomas & Wallworth's

12

High Lane Branch

-

North Staffordshire Railway (main line)

-

Railway aqueduct

60

Stringer's

13

Bullock's (platform)

61

Buxton Road (A54)

14

Smith's / Garman's (platform)

62

Stannier's

-

Nelson Arm (foot, platform)

63

Stannier's Second

15

Brownhill's (platform)

64

Pearson's

16

Ryle's / Hagg Swivel (foot)

-

Tommy Lane #

-

(across entrance to filled in arm) #

65

Pointon's / Stanley's

-

Red Acre Swivel

66

Town Field

-

Red Acre Aqueduct

67

Foden's

17

Mitchell's

68

Buxton Road (A54)

18

Grimshaw's

69

Wallworth's

19

Braddock's / Burgess

70

Jolly's

20

Ryle's

-

North Staffordshire Railway (main line)

21

Hibbert's Brow / Dangerous Corner

71

Porter's (footbridge)

22

Barton's

72

Porter's Farm

-

Duncalf's Swivel (small amount of stonework visible on off side)

-

North Staffordshire Railway (Biddulph Line) Aqueduct

-

Lownde's No 4 #

-

Spill way (foot)

23

Wild's

73

Galley's

24

Snape's

74

Lockett's

25

Whiteley Green

75

Park Lane (2 structures; original canal bridge with modern highway flyover above)

26

Sugar Lane

-

North Staffordshire Railway (main line)

-

Clarence Mill (rail) Swivel. Evidence: stonework and track across towpath

76

Morris's (change line)

-

Clarence Mill (foot) Swivel. Evidence: stonework on towpath, wooden notice on tower

-

Dog Lane / Canal Road Aqueduct

26A

Clarence Mill (foot) [new in 2009]

77

Lambert's Lane (change line)

-

Bollington Aqueduct

-

Reade's Swivel

27

Kerridge Road / Hurst Lane

78

Billy Tight's

-

Grimshaw Lane Aqueduct

78A

Golf Club (modern footbridge)

28

Green's

79

Peel Lane

29

Clarke Lane (change line)

80

Henshall's / Thornhill's

30

Wood's

-

Watery Lane Aqueduct

-

Greave's Swivel

81

Oak Farm

-

Ridgeway's Swivel

82

Hockenhull's / Hockenhall

-

Broome's / Snape's Swivel

83

Gravel Pit

33

Broome's / Higherfold

84

Deakin's

34

Chapel-en-le-Frith / Hurdsfield

85

Simpson's

35

Barracks Road / Higher Fence Road

-

Lownde's No 1

36

Smyth's

86

Lownde's No 2

37

Buxton Road

-

Lownde's No 3 Swivel

38

Black Road

-

Lownde's No 4 #

39

Holland's

87

Kent Green Skew (and pipe)

40

Leadbeater's

88

Lownde's No 5 Swivel

41

Verdon's / Barnshaw

89

Morris's

42

Hollins (foot) (no trace remaining)

90

Glover's Swivel (operational, manual)

43

Foden Bank (change line)

91

Tramroad

-

Gurnett Aqueduct

92

Hall Green Stone

-

River Bollin Aqueduct

93

Hall Green Foot

44

Leek Old Road

94

[un-named]

45

Leek New Road

95

[un-named]

46

Danes Moss

-

Red Bull Aqueduct

47

Broadhurst's Swivel

-

Pool Lock Aqueduct

48

Barrow's / Burrow's Swivel

96

Red Bull Foot (change line)

48A

[un-named] (foot) (new in 1998)

97

Kidsgrove (and pipe)

49

Oakgrove Swivel (operational, powered) (also a separate footbridge)

98

Junction (change line)

50

Mottershead / Farmer's