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Huddersfield Narrow Canal - Harrogate to Stalybridge (★★★★★)

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Today I am walking the Huddersfield Narrow Canal. I had previously walked a short stretch of this canal between Stalybridge and Ashton-under-Lyne, where this canal merges into the Ashton and Peak Forest Canals - as part of a walk along the Peak Forest Canal to one of it's termini at Whaley Bridge . And since we are still in that phase of the year where it is very soggy underfoot, it is an easy choice to be back walking another canal , with a bit of a guarantee that it won't be too bad underfoot (at least on the sections alongside the canal). Today we are starting out at Huddersfield, and from here we will walk along to Marsden - which is a very popular walking route - where we will take on the less commonly walked section, which heads over the top of the Standedge Tunnel, before re-joining the canal at Diggle. We will then return to following the canal until we reach Stalybridge. The Huddersfield Narrow Canalcanal is one of three trans-Pennine canals which each take on very tri...
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Worcester & Birmingham Canal - Bromsgrove to Worcester (★★★☆☆)

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On the previous day I had been walking the Worcester & Birmingham Canal from Birmingham to Bromsgrove , and today I was continuing that journey - completing the remaining length of the canal. The canal itself, runs for 29 miles in total, and connects up the midlands to the River Severn.  On the previous day I had ended the walk by walking past 9 of the locks on the Tardebigge lock flight - and today I would start at that ninth lock, and then pass the other 21 locks on this flight - plus the other 28 locks that feature along this canal. And so it is that I head out from Bromsgrove, along Walnut Lane and then Grimley Lane, to meet up with the canal at that ninth lock.  And for those looking to do this walk over a single day, I was staying just down from the station - and so any distances for this walk will be very close to the distance if done from Bromsgrove station to Worcester station. The bridge that takes me back to the towpath Having met back up with the canal, it is ...
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