Astbury Golf Course Tee Trio – Snailly Bridge Traditional Cache
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Astbury Golf Course Tee Trio – Snailly Bridge
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This cache is one of three caches that if completed together, form a short circular walk around Astbury golf course. It was created to celebrate the scenic area in which we frequently walk the dog.
Opened in 1831, the Macclesfield Canal was one of the last narrow canals to be constructed and runs some 26¼ miles from Marple, through Macclesfield and Congleton, to the stop lock at Hall Green near Kidsgrove. Thomas Telford was hired to make the initial surveys for the route of the canal, but it was an engineer called William Crosley who was actually responsible for its construction. He did however follow Telford's method of "cut and fill", which was to build the canal rather like a railway embankment and as straight as possible over embankments and through many deep cuttings. Bridge 77 at Lambert’s Lane, Congleton, is the most southerly of its six famous ‘snake’ bridges, locally known as Snailly bridge. These fabulous roving bridges, also called ‘turnover’ or ‘change’ bridges, incorporate two spiral ramps on the same side of the bridge, allowing a horse to cross the canal when the towpath changes sides without unhitching the tow line. The superb curvature of the Snake Bridge is both beautiful and inspiring.
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