A former arm on the Bridgewater Canal at Lymm?
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A former arm on the Bridgewater Canal at Lymm?
Image: © Christine Johnstone Taken: 22 May 2021
In the 1890s there was a crane near here, by Henry Street car park on the south bank of the canal. No canal arm is mapped, but as this section of the canal opened in 1776, the arm may have disappeared long before the first large-scale OS map was published.
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Image Location
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53.381492
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-2.480124