Huddersfield Broad Canal, Aspley Wharf
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Huddersfield Broad Canal, Aspley Wharf
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 5 Jan 2015
For over 150 years, Aspley Basin was one of the busiest places in Huddersfield. It came into being when the Broad Canal was completed and greatly increased in importance once the Narrow Canal was finished in 1811. The site was laid out with wharves, cranes and housing for canal workers creating a small dockland. It was a flourishing place because goods had to be transhipped here from the Broad Canal barges to narrowboats and vice versa as the barges were too wide to use the Narrow Canal and the narrowboats were too long to pass through the short locks on the Broad Canal. Today, the basin has been made into a small marina. The tall, red building in the background is the University of Huddersfield's Central Services Building.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.645066
Longitude
-1.774421