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Bridgewater Way What do you think The Bridgewater Way is a regeneration that from the Barton Bridges Heritage Area of our ideas? project which, when completed, will create you can walk/cycle to Astley, into Castlefield a 65km (39 mile) leisure route for walkers or out to Altrincham on a traffic free, Please check our website to see of any upcoming events planned: and cyclist along the Bridgewater Canal. shared use historical route. www.bridgewatercanal.co.uk The works improve the Canal towpath The Barton Aqueduct was originally by creating new access points and where To register your support and receive updates on the project, please email: constructed with an elevated towpath possible widening the surface to allow [email protected] We welcome queries and feedback. which was used by horses to pull barges cycling and making the towpath a safer but dismantled in the 1980s. The Barton We are also keen to hear of any interesting stories relating to the Bridgewater and more appealing route for use by Bridges Hertiage Area Project is keen Canal, the Manchester Ship Canal or the Aqueduct, do you remember the local communities. to gain support to reinstate this historic walkway across the aqueduct? To date all of the Salford upgrade works route of passage to provide a safer and have been completed or are now committed more direct route for pedestrians and We look forward to hearing from you! for delivery by the end of 2016. In Trafford cyclists and to further open up the Barton Bridges works are complete up to Altrincham with Bridgewater Way to the community. works to the borough boundary at Bollington still to be committed. This means Heritage Area Project www.bridgewatercanal.co.uk [email protected] www.bridgewatercanal.co.uk M602 The Vision - Barton Bridges H Project Plan M62 ECCLES Heritage Area (BBHA). M These bridges have been in situ for over Take a look at the ideas below which shows M 100 years. We are keen to enhance this the area up for discussion and review. area and to create a heritage destination This leaflet introduces a vision for the BBHA include the Grade II* listed structures which We need public support for this project to be BRIDGE and bring the history of these working which is an important site of industrial heritage span the Manchester Ship Canal. developed and realised. Register your support W A TER C bridges back to life. We have outlined but is currently underutilised. As part of the by emailing [email protected] History ANAL BARTON some of our initial ideas for the Barton Barton Upon Irwell Conservation Area, We welcome your feedback. The Barton Swing Aqueduct and Swing SALFORD the BBHA contains a number of assets that AFFORD Bridges Heritage Area Project below. Road Bridge were built to replace Brindley’s TR could be enhanced and improved to create These include a potential viewing platform a heritage destination. This will include the 1761 stone aqueduct and a stone road bridge that had crossed the Mersey and visitor space and heritage interpretation explanation and interpretation of the historic City and explanation. Central to our project Irwell Navigation. The construction of the B&Q Airport M60 development of the area as the point at which Park is the idea of reinstating a walkway over Manchester Ship Canal in the 1890s ANAL Mixed Use England’s first true canal the Bridgewater SALFORD CITY Development necessitated new structures that would enable STADIUM Barton Swing Aqueduct. Canal crosses the Manchester Ship Canal, ANCHESTER SHIP C the passage of large ocean going ships M one of the most important civil engineering ON LANE BRIDGE This map is reproduced from Ordnance Survey material with the permission of RT Leisure Village BA W Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office © to reach the Port of Manchester, whilst Port Y A A projects of the late Victorian era. TER C Crown copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead CASTLEREA to prosecution or civil proceedings. LIG0358 2015. Salford ANAL NASMYTH ROAD GRAND UNION W retaining the water and traffic flow along CLOSE 0 25 50 75 100 FOUNT Graveyard E AIN STREET l S u b EDISON ROAD S The BBHA provides a unique cultural offer. the Bridgewater Canal. The solution devised ta Metres Centre potential opportunity sites. They are B A The Barton Swing Aqueduct, Swing Bridge 0mm 60mm R by the engineer Sir Edward Leader Williams T O N numbered broadly in the sequence in R O A and Control Tower are Grade II* listed D VENUE A was to design a Swing Aqueduct and Swing SALFORD which they may be deliverable, though CLOSE VENUE VENSCROFT AFFORD A HA structures that are recognised as important TR KEADBY Road Bridge which pivoted on an island in this is subject to discussion and review. SHIRLEY and unique feats of engineering heritage the centre of the Ship Canal and controlled Subsequent pages identify the site VENUE area, access points and comment A and together they define the special via the Valve Tower that remains in use today. CALDON CLOSE on the potential use of the site and SHAFTESBURY character of the area. Did you know… Built between 1890 and 1894, the swing its contribution to the Barton Bridges Heritage Area Vision. ROCKHOUSE CLOSE The proposed project is to create a heritage Aqueduct represents a particularly unique The contract price to construct It takes 2 mins for Salford CouncilBurial are making TWINING ROAD Ground M M S destination which takes these unique assets engineering solution to the unusual problem the Swing Aqueduct in 1887 the Swing Aqueduct improvements to the lower pocket PotentialS viewing platform and links them through improved connectivity of a multi-level waterway junction. It is an was £25,249 3s 6p - the and Swing Bridge park due to be finished by 2016 and access. This builds on the work started important early example of the use of equivalent to over £1m today to rotate Bowling Green Improvements to re-instate 1887 the pedestrian walkways by Salford City Council, associated with the hydraulics and roller bearings, and is the first THISTLEDOWN CLOSE 2 with the addition of cycle original stone aqueduct, expanding this to and only example of its type in the world. The trough of the Swing The first vessel to cross the Swing ways. (Up until the 1960’s Aqueduct was the barge ‘Ann’ of Aqueduct holds 800 tons 3 pedestrians could walk of water – the equivalent - - - - - across the Aqueduct) Lymm with cargo of sulphuric acid PLACE Rev Date Revision Note Dn Rv CHAPEL of almost 90,000 buckets Client / Contractor Peel Investments North Limited Potential visitor space The Swing Aqueduct is and heritage information 235 feet long – about Intelligence 1 Chapel Place Buildings 5 double decker buses Infrastructure www.ibigroup.com 2 Barton Swing Aqueduct Project Redclyffe Road ON ROAD 3 Barton Swing Bridge OLD BART The Swing4 IslandAqueduct & Hydraulic Tower and Swing Sir Edward Leader Williams ON ROAD WEST T Bridge5 wereBridgewater built Canal by W theest Bank Derby- (Higher) Graveyard had previously worked on Drawing Title based 6AndrewBridgewater Handyside Canal West Bank (Lower) & Co. ASHBUR The Barton Bridges Heritage Area - the Anderton Boat Lift for Potential Development Sites who also7 madeLorenz Yard the distinctive cast the Weaver Navigation 8 Land off Havenscroft Ave. iron red post boxes Job Number Drawing Originated Date PAS 1192 Status Code 9 Old Barton Road 6706 13/11/15 - Scale@A3 Purpose 10 All Saints Church 1:2,000 Preliminary Drawing Number Revision 11 All Saints Print Workshop 6706_SP(90)04 -.
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