The Huddersfield Broad canal connects the river Calder and with the centre of Huddersfield and links with the Huddersfield Narrow canal. The lift bridge in the picture is the most interesting feature.
1. The bridge is known by two names, one is Turnbridge, what is the other name?
A=3rd Letter
The Huddersfield Broad Canal was originally known as the Cooper Canal, as it branched off the Calder and Hebble Navigation at Cooper Bridge. It was later known as Sir John Ramsden's Canal, after the Lord of the Manor and main land-owner. It later became known as the Broad Canal to distinguish it from the Narrow Canal.
It was opened in 1776 and is 4 miles long and rises through nine locks to terminate in a Basin in the centre of Huddersfield.
The Huddersfield narrow canal connects into this terminal basin and opened throughout to Ashton in 1811.
2. What is the name of the Basin in the centre of Huddersfield?
B=5th Letter
When the Huddersfield Narrow canal was originally reopened a new tunnel was built underneath the Sellers engineering factory, the factory has since closed and been demolished and in 2012 the new Huddersfield waterfront development has been constructed including a new campus for Kirklees college. Also included in the scheme was improvements to the canal, the tunnel has been removed and the level of the canal bed raised to make an attractive area in front of the college and a new lock built to drop the canal under Chapel Hill.
3. What is the number of the new lock opened in 2012?
C= Lock Number
At Paddock Foot the Huddersfield narrow canal is overshadowed by the huge viaduct that carries the Huddersfield to Penistone Railway across the Colne valley.
Just above the lock the canal passes over the river Colne on an Aqueduct.
4. What is the number of the lock?
D= Lock Number
Alongside the canal near Linthwaite stands the impressive Titanic mill. The Mill was derelict but has been restored and now contains luxury apartments, a hotel and health spa.
5. What year was the Mill Built?
E= Year XXEX
In Slaithwaite a half mile of canal through the village centre had been filled in but not built on.
The restoration scheme, re-excavated the canal and rebuilt the locks to provide a really attractive village centre, where the canal passes right up the high street, one of the locks was also restored wth a guillotine bottom gate to accomodate a bridge that had been widened.
6. What number is this lock?
F= Lock Number
The climb to the summit pound is completed at Marsden at lock 42E. The lock is squeezed in next to Marsden Railway station. This lock raises the water level to the highest pound of any canal in the uk. quite a climb up from Huddersfield.
7. what height above sea level?
G= GXX Feet
The main obstacle for the promoters and builders of the canal was how to cross the high ground between Marsden and Saddleworth. A tunnel was proposed, and took 17 years to build and was opened in 1811. The delay was caused by the difficulty of driving such a tunnel which stretched the engineering knowledge of the time, and also lack of finance and poor supervision.
The tunnel was extended at the Diggle end when the railway tunnels were built to make it even longer.
Standedge tunnel is the longest, highest (above sea level) and deepest (below ground level) canal tunnel in the uk.
8.How long in metres is the tunnel?
H= HXXX metres
When the Manchester to Leeds railway was built, the tunnels followed the same alignment as the canal tunnel and the canal tunnel was used to remove spoil from the railway tunnels excavation. The railway and canal tunnels are linked by adits between them. Now only one railway tunnel is in use by trains though there are plans to reopen one of the disused tunnels as part of the electrification works planned for the railway.
9.In all how many railway and canal tunnels are there at Standedge?
I= Number
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Using the normal convention of A=1, B=2 or the number indicated.
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N 53 (A) (B+3) . (C-1) (D-2) (E+5)
W001 (F+26). (G-3) (H+2) (I+1)
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