GUIDE Bridge 47 & Sons BUTCHERS Phonecard McPherson PostDental Surgeons Office SHOPS 2 SYMBOLS USED IN THIS GUIDE Bank or Building Society BUSINESS Post Office: with stores, without stores Post Box - only shown if nearer than the Post Office Telephone Box Internet Cafe Doctors' Surgery WATERWAY Canal HEALTH Dental Surgery Towpath Veterinary Surgery Lock Hospital with A&E Bridge 14 Roadbridge Chemist (dispensing) Access Moorings Moorings TRANSPORT Bus Stop and Station Footpath Tram stop and Line Water * Railway Station and Line Rubbish * Petrol Station Toilet emptying * SHOPS Shops, not always shown individually Facility* block Self-serve Store or Supermarket *If absent from other guides FOOD Take-aways: General, Asian (Balti, Indian etc.) Chinese, Fish & Chips, Pizza 3 OTHER: Launderette Tourist Information Church Booking Passages 5 Adlington 93 Appley Bridge 60 Bridgewater Armley 136-137 Eccles 52 Barnoldswick 114-115 Leigh 54-55 Bingley 124-125 Patricroft 53 Blackburn - Worsley 53 Centre 99-101 Cherry Tree 97 Lock Equipment 32 Brierfield 108 Brighouse 36-37 Burnley 105-107 Elland 34-35 Burscough 62-63 Salterhebble 33 Chorley 94-95 Sowerby Bridge 30-31 Clayton 103 Colne 112 Huddersfield Canals Crossflatts 123 Ashton 50-51 Foulridge 113 Bradley 39 Gargrave 116-117 Huddersfield 40-41 Greengates 130-131 Marsden 44-45 Hapton 104 Slaithwaite 42-43 Haskayne 64 Stalybridge 48-49 Uppermill 46-47 Kirkstall 134-135 Leeds 139-141 Lancaster Liverpool - Centre 70-72 Ashton-on- Ribble 80-81 Liverpool - Eldonian 68-69 Bilsborrow 81 Litherland 67 Carnforth 90-91 Lydiate 65 Galgate 84 Maghull 66 Garstang 82-83 Nelson 110-111 Glasson 91 Parbold 61 Hest Bank 89 Riddlesden 122 Lancaster 86-87 Rishton 102 Lancaster Vet 88 Rodley 132 Leeds and Liverpool Rufford 73 Swing Bridge equipment: Saltaire 126-127 west of Wigan 56 Shipley 128-129 east of Wigan 96 Silsden 120-121 Leeds and Liverpool (cont.) Skipton 118-119 Manchester 8-12 Tarleton 74 Mytholmroyd 28-29 Wheelton 96 Newton Heath 13 Wigan 57-59 Rochdale 18 Rochdale Centre 19 Ribble Slattocks 16 Ribble Link Tips 75-76 Todmorden 22-23 Preston Centre 78-79 Walsden 21 Preston Riversway 77 Appendices Rochdale Dentists 142-143 Castleton 17 Doctors 144-145 Failsworth 14-15 Vets 146 BOOKING PASSAGES British Waterways need to give you operational or security assistance on certain stretches of these waterways: BW Northwest, tel. 01942 405 700, administer the two ‘Links’. Both require advanced booking, and the completion of paperwork, either by post or at the Wigan Office as you approach. Ribble Link. Give as much notice as possible, e.g. two months, as passage is only possible on certain tides. See the cruising notes on pages 71 and 72. Liverpool Canal Link. Staff work you through swing Bridges 9 and 6 and the locks down to the moorings in Salthouse Docks. At the time of writing, schedules are still being evolved but overnight stays at Eldonian Basin and Litherland were required in 2009. BW Manchester and Pennine, tel. 01782 785703, look after the South Pennine Ring: 3 On the Rochdale Canal there is a ‘shadowed’ passage between Locks 82 and 66 and the summit (Locks 36-37) 4 For Standedge Tunnel, book as far in advance as possible, a minimum of 24 hours ahead. Shadowed passages are available on Mon+Wed+Fri only with three individual time slots east to west in the mornings and west to east in the afternoons. 5 The Northwest Waterways Carnforth Hest Bank Lancaster LANCASTER Glasson Galgate Garstang Clayton-le- Bilsborrow Moors PRESTON Rishton Blackburn Wheelton Tarleton Chorley Littleborough Rufford L & L Adlington WIGAN Rochdale Castleton Appley Bridge Slattocks LEIGH Burscough Failsworth Bridge Newton 33 Haskayne Worsley Heath Lydiate Eccles Trafford Centre Maghull Litherland Bridgewater LIVERPOOL 6 Barnoldswick Gargrave Skipton Foulridge Nelson Silsden Leeds & Liverpool Leeds & LiverpoolBrierfield Riddlesden Burnley Hapton Bingley Walsden Saltaire 3 Todmorden Shipley Hebden Bridge Rochdale Greengates Mytholmroyd Rodley Sowerby Bridge Salterhebble Kirkstall C&H N Elland Armley Brighouse LEEDS A&C N Bradley Huddersfield Legend Narrow Slaithwaite Place covered in full Marsden Place with A & E Hospital 4 Doctor Uppermill Dentist Vet Huddersfield Large Supermarket Stalybridge Passage booking required. # See note # on page 5 Ashton-under-Lyne 7 Peak Forest MANCHESTER - Castlefields Moorings: Castlefields, at the bottom of the nine Under the road bridge, tied to the railings! Banks: Cross Street - HSBC, Alliance & Leicester, Newcastle BS, Leeds & Holbeck BS, Britannia BS St Ann's Square - Barclays Deansgate - Halifax, NatWest Others are spread all over the city - ask at the Tourist Information for the precise location of the one you need Chemist: Boots in Market Street Dentist: Emergency clinics are held on Saturdays, Sundays and bank holiday Mondays between 1000 and 1230 at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, or you could try the Dental Hospital in Higher Cambridge Street Tel: 0161 275 6666 Doctor: NHS Walk-In Centre, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road (doctor on site) or Boots in Market Street has a Walk-in Centre (doctor on site) open 0800-2000, every day or doctors’ surgery Tel: 0161 237 9490 Market: the Arndale centre has a six-day lower level market, which contains fish, poultry and continental foods stalls Post box: On the corner of Liverpool Road and Deansgate Post Office: Brasenose Post Office, 21 Brasenose Street, Manchester. M2 5BS Tel: 0161 832 2702 Shopping: All the major shops that you would expect to find in a city, centred around the Arndale Centre Salford Quays (via tram from G-Mex) - Lowry Outlet Mall and Cinema complex n.b. there is a butcher close to the Post Office, a stall in Deansgate which sells fruit and some vegetables Mon-Sat, and a baker in Cross Street Takeaway: Liverpool Road - Fish & Chips Telephone: outside Deansgate Station 8 Rochdale & Bridgewater Trafford Centre p.52 Mancherster Victoria Metroshuttle is a FREE bus service. There are three routes, operating Mon-Sat 0700-1900, Sun 1000-1800, all circular routes. Routes 1 & 2 overlap in Deansgate on the west side of the road. Route 1 (shown as on page 116) travels from and to Piccadilly Station, via China Town, King Street, Deansgate, Market Street and Piccadilly Gardens at 5 minute intervals. Route 2 (shown as on this map) links the Arndale Cannon Street Centre, Victoria Station, Oxford Road Station and Deansgate Station at 10 minute intervals. Metroshuttle Metrotram York Street with stop Moseley Street Sainsbury Science & Liverpool RoadIndustry Museum swimming pool Princess Street Portland Street To Salford Quays Moorings Castle Street Whitworth Street Deansgate Station 9 Bridgewater Oxford Road Station TURN BACK FOR 10, COMBINED WITH 9 MANCHESTER- Ducie Street [SK 848 982] Banks: Cross Street: HSBC, Cheltenham & Gloucester BS, Alliance & Leicester, Leeds & Holbeck BS, Newcastle BS, Britannia BS St Ann's Square: Barclays Deansgate: Halifax, NatWest Piccadilly: Barclays, Yorkshire BS Halifax, more in Moseley Street Chemist: Boots in Market Street Dentist: Emergency clinics are held on Saturdays, Sundays and bank holiday Mondays between 1000 and 1230 at Manchester Royal Infirmary, or you could try the Dental Hospital in Higher Cambridge Street Tel: 0161 275 6666 Doctor: The DOC's is the only surgery in the city centre, and will see visitors once only. Contact by phone, then ask for directions Tel: 0161 237 9490 Market: the Arndale centre has a six-day lower level market, with fish, poultry and continental foods stalls Post Office: Brazenose Post Office, 21 Brazenose Street, Manchester. M2 5BS Tel: 0161 832 2702 Shopping: There is a newsagent and florist near Piccadilly Station. All the major shops that you would expect to find in a city, centred around the Arndale Centre. n.b. There is a butcher close to the Post Office, a stall in Deansgate which sells fruit and some vegetables Mon- Sat, and a baker in Cross Street Telephone: at Piccadilly Station Ashton 11 Blackfriars St Free bus change Brasenose Stt Metroshuttle Metrotram with stop Superdrug Boots Somerfield 24hr Spar Whitworth Street Moorings Metroshuttle is a FREE bus service. There are three circular routes, see page 113 Ducie Street Route 1 (shown as on this map) travels from and to Piccadilly Station, via China Town, King Street, Deansgate, Moorings Market Street and Piccadilly Gardens at 5 minute intervals. 12 Manchester Piccadilly NIP TO: GENERAL STORE. Visible from Lock 71. NEWTON HEATH Dean Lane Station You reach Newton Heath whilst on the escorted passage out of Oldham Road Emporium Manchester. It is possible to Nip-to Chinese the outlets shown whilst your boat is in the lock n.b. Excellent fish & chips when I was there! Lidl Old Chuch Street Lock 69 MARKET M SilkStreet Banks: LloydsTSB on illwright Street Old Church Street Chemist: Old Church Street Market: Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays Shopping: All in Old Church Street - North of the canal - Lidl, Petstore (parrots a speciality!) South of the canal - Flowers, Baker, £shop, Healthfoods Takeaway: Old Church Street - Fish & Chips Rochdale 13 FAILSWORTH Moorings: South of Lock 65, look for wooden posts on the offside, south of a footbridge [SD 893 013] Walking time: Less than 5 minutes Lock 65 Tesco Extra Oldham Road Car park Moorings Mooring Ashton Road Beresford Street Poplar Street Morrison Lock 67 14 Rochdale Banks: Barclays, where the shopping precinct joins the main road Chemist: Beside the surgery or in the precinct Doctor: Failsworth Health Centre, Ashton Road West Surgery Hours: Mon-Fri 0830-1800