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Saturday 20th March 2010

Places to go along the Huddersfield Narrow Canal

Local attractions

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Image for Standedge Tunnel

The longest, deepest, and highest canal tunnel in the country, Standedge Tunnel - on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal - …

  • Historic structure

  • Leisure attraction
Canal Boats at Rest (Sheepcote Street Bridge, Birmingham). © John Twinning

Artist John Twinning has exhibited and sold his work at exhibitions throughout the country. You can see examples of …

  • Gallery
  • Leisure attraction

  • Leisure attraction
Golcar Mills, © Andrew Loughran - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Golcar is a small hillside village of weaver's cottages, steep streets and twisting leyways or 'ginnels' which Sir …

  • Leisure attraction
Shaw Heys, Marsden Moor Estate. © Nigel Homer - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

While the Huddersfield Narrow Canal bores through the Standedge peak in the canal system's most spectacular tunnel, …

  • Leisure attraction
Image for Portland Basin Museum

This heritage centre is in a good spot in the former Ashton Canal Warehouse, on the Ashton Canal, opposite the …

  • Museum

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