Wheelock Locks No 65, Cheshire
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Wheelock Locks No 65, Cheshire
Image: © Roger D Kidd Taken: 31 Aug 2011
The south lock of this pair on the Trent and Mersey Canal is currently in use. Its neighbour needs attention, so is not available. Locks 65 and 66 and the adjacent cottage (built about the same time as the north locks, c1830) are Grade II listed as a group. The original locks were built in 1775 (the current south side of each pair). Is that a duck house I spy? The eight paired locks forming the Wheelock Flight allows a rise in water level of 79ft 6in (24·2 metres). This flight is also part of the more extended series of twenty-six locks, many also still paired but not all in use, which make up the Cheshire Locks, or "Heartbreak Hill" as the canal climbs towards Kidsgrove and the Harecastle Tunnel.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.129624
Longitude
-2.366252