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F National Cycle Network Millennium Mileposts. This is one of four different types of Millennium Guidance on the use of towpaths Mileposts. It is an example of the first post to be commissioned and was All users narrow sections. If you are in a hurry, use RIDDLESDEN Swine Lane designed by John Mills. It is entitled an alternative route. Bridge The ‘Fossil Tree’ and takes the form l Please be of an abstract tree with relief imagery considerate to other l Never pass a pedestrian or another of fossils. These depict the passage users and the local cyclist underneath a bridge - there is not of time from early primitive creatures environment. The room to do so safely. to the ultimate demise of fossil fuel waterways and driven technology. (Adapted from l You must get off and push your cycle www.sustrans.org.uk) towpaths have many historic structures and beneath low or blind bridges, and where Morton Bridge important wildlife habitats for the path is very narrow. people to enjoy. l Cyclists are currently required to obtain l Please clear up after your dog, and take a permit to cycle on towpaths designated KEIGHLEY 1 as cycle routes. For the latest information your litter home. about permits, and to find out where you l Pedestrians have priority over cyclists on can and cannot cycle, visit: www. the towpath, considerate cycling is permitted in waterscape.com accordance with this guidance. For more information and advice about safety on the Micklethwaite waterways, as well as cycling hints and tips Pedestrians please refer to www.waterscape.com Bridge l Listen out for warnings from Cyclists cyclists. l Allow cyclists A Britannia Bridge (Bingley) l Give way to others on the to pass by moving B featuring a cable stay design, spans to the back edge of the award-winning A650 Bingley Relief towpath and warn the towpath. Road. It was opened in January 2004 them of your and enables pedestrians and cyclists approach. Make to travel between the town centre, the pedestrians aware of canal towpath, and residential areas. your presence by Anglers (Adapted from www.highways.gov.uk) ringing your bell or l Make sure the offering a polite hello, be towpath is easily prepared to slow down, give people space, passable by keeping stop, or dismount if necessary. BINGLEY your fishing tackle l Ride at a sensible speed, the towpath is tidy. A never suitable for cycling fast as there are 2 many other users, blind spots, low bridges and
B Bingley Five Rise Locks are a Grade I listed structure and generally Dowley Gap Bridge considered to be one of the finest feats of canal engineering in the country. Built c.1774 to the designs of engineer John Longbotham, the locks comprise of five locks in a stairway series that is preserved in a virtually unaltered condition C since they were built and still in use to this day. The locks raise the level of the canal by 60ft and each lock holds 80,000-90,000 gallons of water. (Adapted 3 from www.bradford.gov.uk)
D F 4 E Emblem Local government in Shipley began in 1853, when The Shipley Local Board had its first SALTAIRE meeting, at 3.00 pm on the 16th April in the Sun Hotel. The board commissioned an emblem that it could adopt as a seal. Early proposals were based on sheep feeding from a hack, from the SHIPLEY suggestion that the name Shipley came from the number of sheep walks in the vicinity. Eventually, an emblem was put forward with the three sheep E The first section of this long range of Grade in the meadow, or lea. The three sheep are said C The Seven Arches Aqueduct (Dowley II Listed wool warehouses in Shipley was built in to represent the three manors in Shipley. Later, Gap) was engineered by John Longbotham to 1874. This building is situated at the eastern end in 1894, the Windhill board was amalgamated the plan of James Brindley. It was built c.1773 of the range and is slightly taller and set further into Shipley and the windmill was added to the with James Rhodes of Shipley as contractor. D Victoria Mills, Shipley was originally owned back from the canal than the others. A timber clad emblem to acknowledge this. The board later The Grade II Listed Building, which features by the Jerome family who came from Limerick, covered loading area extends over the canal. This became the Shipley Urban District Council, who voussoired segmental arches, carries the Ireland, after being driven out during the 1904 feature would have helped to keep goods dry as ran the town for many years until it eventually Leeds & Liverpool Canal 30ft over the River antisemitic pogrom. The five acre site has they were unloaded. Although there are two later disappeared in 1974, under the local government Aire. (Adapted from www.bradford.gov.uk) recently been developed into approximately phases of construction, this group of warehouses reorganisation, when Shipley became part of the 400 residential apartments, within both new and retains a strongly consistent appearance including City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council. converted buildings. The mill complex features further covered loading areas. The warehouses (Source: Shipley Local History Society.) three listed buildings, including a chimney, were renovated in 1995 and their current uses and the development has won various design include a restaurant and gym. (Adapted from www. awards. (Adapted from www.guardian.co.uk and bradford.gov.uk) www.newmason.co.uk)