Canal and Motorway, Chadderton, Oldham
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Canal and Motorway, Chadderton, Oldham
Image: © Keith Williamson Taken: 6 Apr 2005
For a few hundred metres the M60 Motorway and the Rochdale Canal run side by side. Although separated by only a few metres in space they are separated by about 200 years in time, as this section of the canal (part of Britain's first trans-Pennine canal route) opened in 1799.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.526978
Longitude
-2.158049