The Bridgewater Canal near Preston Brook, Cheshire
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The Bridgewater Canal near Preston Brook, Cheshire by Roger D Kidd as part of the Geograph project.
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The Bridgewater Canal near Preston Brook, Cheshire
Image: © Roger D Kidd Taken: 30 Aug 2011
The M56 motorway crosses the canal ahead. Past the bridge and to the left is the junction where the Norton Arm leaves towards Runcorn, and (originally) the River Mersey. On the right is the Midland Chandlers chandlery and a boatyard. To avoid suspicion that I have stretched this image horizontally for artistic effect, the red/green "narrowboat" on the right isn't actually a narrowboat; it is about eleven feet in beam, rather than the conventional seven.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.323089
Longitude
-2.6512