Water channel next to Garstang Bridge
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Water channel next to Garstang Bridge
Image: © Humphrey Bolton Taken: 14 May 2007
This connects to the river, and presumably carries surface water. But why the penstock arrangement next to the bridge? The change in the river wall marks one end of the former weir for Garstang Mill (Corn), as shown on a map of 1893.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.897777
Longitude
-2.773041