It is a small channel just off the Manchester Ship Canal At Stockton Heath.
It is a lock with 3 gates and various manual pulling systems dotted around the site to mechanically open/close the gates.
I looked in Emapping Cheshire and an aerial photo of the site in the 70’s shows that the other side of the locks was a waterway that fed into the River Mersey.
That section was the Runcorn and Latchford Canal, it is closed off now and vanishes in the mass of undergrowth at the lock section.

Tomi Mens

September 27, 2018

Cycling

One of the many places I like not in Warrington

Chorky)86

July 9, 2019

Cycling

Toni men’s why is this I live in Warrington it’s the old railway route into altringham & manchester

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