The Leeds Liverpool Canal: Blackburn to Burnley


Cherry Tree - Johnson's Hillock 54 -47 miles	Blackburn 59 -54 miles	Blackburn to Burnley 59 - 71	Burnley 71-75	Foulridge Tunnel - Burnley Lane 82 -75 miles
Former Lancaster Canal South Section 47 -37 miles	Rishton Not particularly interesting from the towpath. Oswaldtwistle Once home to collieries and iron works, now quiet with the remains of industry past now covered in vegetation. Church From the canal Church looks abandoned. Boats used to spend the night at Church warehouse, starting their engines up at 5am which was not popular with the locals. Hapton Once important for coal Hapton was home to many of the bargemen who worked on the canal			Greenberfield - Foulridge 87 -82 miles
				Gargrave - Greenberfield 93 -87 miles
Wigan 37 -34 miles				Gargrave - Skipton
Wigan -Burscough 34 -25 miles				Skipton
Rufford Branch				Skipton to Keighley 99 - 109miles
Burscough -Maghull 24 - 12 miles				Keighley to Shipley 109 - 115
Melling -Bootle 12 -3 miles
Liverpool 3-0 miles	Liverpool Dock Link	home		Leeds 127.25 miles

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Blackburn

Blackburn to Rishton section is good for bikes, and there is a cyclepath

Blackburn Station
Rishton, Church, Hapton

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Gannow Tunnel	motorway #127C	#127C	Gannow Bridge #127A	milepost 71 miles

Maden Fold Bridge	Dugdale Bridge #126A	warehouse	kennet	BWB

Liverpool Road Bridge #126	house date nr Old Rose Grove Bridge #125	railway #124C	124AA 124A Molly Wood Bridge	milepost 70miles

reflections	Knotts Bridge #123	boats	MilePost LPool 69 Miles Leeds 58¼Miles	Hapton Bridge #121

Hapton bridge has been widened but still has no pavement	Hapton	Hapton Moorings	Hapton Boatyard	M65

Higher Shuttleworth Bridge #120	Bridge Makers Plate	Shuttleworth Bridge #119A Shuttleworth Hall bridge #119	View from Shuttleworth Hall Bridge #119	A ruin by Shuttleworth Hall bridge

Altham Bridge #118	Unnamed ex working Boat	A41	Altham Bridge #118	MilePost LPool 67 Miles Leeds 60¼Miles

Ruin	Clough Bank Bridge #117	Site of Smiths Bridge	Ruin	Inside Ruin

Smith's Swing bridge #116	4 Pipes	Fosters Swing bridge #115	Pilkington Bridge #114C	Whalley Road bridge #114B

MilePost LPool 65 Miles Leeds 62¼Miles	Warehouse Window	Warehouse from Enfield Changeline Bridge #114A	Rileys Swing bridge #114	Bridge lock needs a windlass

Peel Arm from Peel Bank Bridge 113A	The Peel Arm	Peel Arm Towpath	Church at Church	Approaching the halfway point

< Leeds	MilePost LPool 63 5/8 Miles Leeds 63 5/8 Miles	Halfway	The midway point	Liverpool >

Church Kirk Changeline Bridge #112	Church Kirk Changeline Bridge #112	chimney of Church Kirk Mill	scrap	Church warehouse

the warehouse, with remains of wooden wharf	Simpsons Bridge and warehouse	the road side of the warehouse	View from Simpsons Bridge 111D Canal Foundry was on the right	Canal Map painting on border of Oswaldtwistle and Church

Rope Marks	MilePost LPool 63 Miles Leeds 64¼Miles	Foxhill Bank Bridge#111	old mooring ring	Coke Ovens Arm

Next to the coking ovens is a short arm of the canal	coking oven battery	brick lined beehive coking oven	coking ovens	Aspen bridge #110

Aspen bridge #110 access to towpath here	view across valley to Aspen bridge #110	looking towards railway	under railway looking north	New Barn Bridge #109 with milepost in foreground

this area of rushes is an old basin, pre1850	view across valley to canal at Church	MilePost LPool 62 Miles Leeds 65¼ Miles	approaching the aqueduct	the M65

aqueduct	view from the towpath towards Church	Rishton Bridge 108A	under Rishton Bridge 108A The edge of this bridge has been taken off to give more headroom.	sign

Approaching Rishton Site of milepost 61	Norden Bridge 107A	double ramp for horses, pylons are the main feature of this stretch	horses	#107 Cut Bridge site of milepost 60

view at lower side beet	on bend possible site of a wharf, large spoil heaps border the canal	#106 Side Beet Bridge	Location of 59mile milepost, new development on former farmland	Railway bridge
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