Glaze Brook enters the Manchester Ship Canal
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Glaze Brook enters the Manchester Ship Canal
Image: © Keith Williamson Taken: 3 Aug 2005
Here, on the border between Cheshire and Salford, the Manchester Ship Canal receives the waters of Glaze Brook (also known as the River Glaze). The Glaze drains a substantial area of mossland hereabouts and was the boundary between the ancient Lancashire Hundreds of West Derby and Salford.This latter fact is recorded on the wall of a bridge near here that carries the A57 road over the Glaze, but as the wall is made of sandstone the lettering is wearing away.This part of the Ship Canal is a canalised section of the River Mersey. The Mersey joined the canal a little way upstream of this point (to the left) and will leave the canal a little further downstream, close to where the River Bollin joins the canal. Taken from SJ703912
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Image Location
Latitude
53.416755
Longitude
-2.449828