Standedge Tunnels
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The Standedge Tunnels are four parallel tunnels through the Pennine hills at the Standedge crossing between Marsden in Kirklees, West Yorkshire and Diggle in Oldham, Greater Manchester in northern Eng
Tunnel End Cottages and the canal portal at Marsden
Inside the canal tunnel
The 1848 and 1871 tunnel portals at Diggle
The eastern portals of the tunnels
Huddersfield Narrow Canal
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The Huddersfield Narrow Canal is an inland waterway in northern England. It runs just under 20 miles from Lock 1E at the rear of the University of Huddersfield campus, near Aspley Basin in Huddersfiel
Standedge Tunnels
…the other is a canal tunnel. Before boundary changes in 1974, both ends of the tunnels were in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The canal tunnel on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal was authorised by the Huddersfield to Ashton-under-Lyne Canal Act 1794 (34 Geo. 3. c. 53) on 4 April 1794. Construction of a 5,451-yard (4,984 m) tunnel…
Lock 1E - Start of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal
Outram's Stakes aqueduct at Stalybridge
Share of the operator Huddersfield Canal Company, issued 1. March 1805