It runs just under 20 miles 32 km from lock 1e at the rear of the university of huddersfield campus near aspley basin in huddersfield to the junction with the ashton canal at whitelands basin in ashton under lyne. After being derelict for 50 years it reopened to boats in 2001 thanks to the efforts of the local community and the huddersfield canal society.
The waterway is 3 75 miles 6 km long and has 9 wide locks.
Huddersfield canal. The huddersfield broad canal has been reborn from a weed clogged channel in the 1980s to a popular boating route today thanks to the restoration of the connecting huddersfield narrow canal and the upgrading of the canal facilities. The summit of the huddersfield narrow canal is the highest navigable waterway in britain. The councils have long supported the restoration of the canal and in doing so have had to face their own particular engineering challenges to re open the navigation.
The huddersfield narrow canal passes through the council regions of tameside oldham and kirklees. The huddersfield narrow canal is an inland waterway in northern england it runs just under 20 miles 32 km from lock 1e at the rear of the university of huddersfield campus near aspley basin in huddersfield to the junction with the ashton canal at whitelands basin in ashton under lyne it crosses the pennines by means of 74 locks and the standedge tunnel. Cutting through the rugged hills of the pennies and weaving through wooded countryside and past historic mills.
The canal is a must for canal boaters and should be for paddlers too. The canal s rebirth against all the odds is the outstanding success of the canal restoration movement. The huddersfield broad canal or sir john ramsden s canal is a wide locked navigable canal in west yorkshire in northern england.
It follows the valley of the river colne and connects the calder and hebble navigation at cooper bridge junction with the huddersfield narrow canal near aspley basin in huddersfield. The huddersfield narrow canal runs for 20 miles between huddersfield in west yorkshire and ashton under lyne in greater manchester uk. The huddersfield narrow canal is one of those places you have to paddle if you re into dramatic scenery.
The huddersfield narrow canal short but steep the huddersfield narrow canal rises into glorious pennine moorland with many reservoirs and swathes of national trust land. After 27 years of campaigning and restoration led by canal society volunteers the narrow canal was re opened in may 2001 and gained. The huddersfield narrow canal is an inland waterway in northern england.
The huddersfield canal society was formed in 1974 by a group of enthusiasts with the ambitious aim of restoring the then derelict huddersfield narrow canal to through navigation and improving the broad canal. Once dubbed the impossible restoration the canal was fully restored to navigation in 2001 as a result of a 5 million millennium project.
