Walk Saturday 7 August 2004
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The last of the mile markres before the Yorkshire Lancashire boarder. |
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Long Lees Lock House. The eastern end of the summit level. No summit tunnel on the Rochdale Canal. |
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The summit level . |
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. The summit lock house on the Lancashire side. |
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The Summit Inn with the lock house just behind. A good place to stop for refresments. |
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A boat coming up the Littleborough flight. The mills in the background were once owned by Fothergill and Harvey. |
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.This pool is known as the 'Punch Bowl' |
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There is a Cricket Field to the left of the Canal here. |
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Light Owlers house standing above this very wide section of the canal. |
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Rhodes Warfe with the houses in the background on the Blackstone edge road |
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Boats entering the lock at Durn Littleborough. |
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Durn Lock is narrow and two boats fit in one behind the other rather than side by side. |
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Coming out of Durn Lock. |
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Next stop Ealees lock., then on a 3 mile stretch of canal without a lock to Rochdale. |
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