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Dist:0.4km<br/>Housing in Monsal Grove seen from beneath Bridge No 14 on the Caldon Canal.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.4km<br/>Housing in Monsal Grove by the Caldon Canal. The Caldon Branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal opened in 1779. It runs eighteen miles from Etruria in Stoke-on-Trent, where it leaves the Trent and Mersey Canal. It terminates at Froghall about five miles south-east of Cheddleton. The canal has seventeen locks and the 69 metre long very low Froghall Tunnel, unusable by many narrowboats. The canal did originally continue through to Uttoxeter, but the section beyond Froghall was closed by the late 1840s, much of its course being filled in to construct a railway.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.4km<br/>By bridge No 14.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Caldon Canal meanders a lot as it follows its contour along the Trent Valley through Stoke. Here, Bridge No 14 gives access to open woodland and heathland by the river to the right, and the canal swings to the east past housing in Monsal Grove.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.4km<br/>The canal meanders a lot as it follows its contour along the Trent Valley through Stoke. Here it approaches Bridge No 14, which gives access to open woodland and heathland by the river.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.4km<br/>The canal meanders a lot as it follows its contour along the Trent Valley through Stoke. Here it approaches Bridge No 14, which gives access to open woodland and heathland by the river.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.4km<br/>Bridge 14 on the Caldon Canal, Birches Head, Stoke on Trent. Overshadowed by a magnificent Weeping Willow, here the canal makes its way out of the city into countryside.
©Phil Eptlett
Dist:0.4km<br/>The recent housing development in Monsal Grove has a well landscaped grass area on that side of the canal.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.5km<br/>To the left (north) is a housing estate reaching Birches Head. To the right is woodland (access by way of Bridge No 14 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2483447 ) and open heath down to the River Trent. The Caldon Branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal opened in 1779. It runs eighteen miles from Etruria in Stoke-on-Trent, where it leaves the Trent and Mersey Canal. It terminates at Froghall about five miles south-east of Cheddleton. The canal has seventeen locks and the 69 metre long very low Froghall Tunnel, unusable by many narrowboats. The canal did originally continue through to Uttoxeter, but the section beyond Froghall was closed by the late 1840s, much of its course being filled in to construct a railway.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.5km<br/>An attractively landscaped grass area fronts the recent housing of Monsal Grove.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.6km<br/>Off to the left (north) is a housing estate reaching Birches Head. To the right is woodland (access by way of Bridge No 14 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2483447 ) and open heath sloping down to the River Trent.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.6km<br/>Reservoir tower and the ubiquitous phone masts at the edge of Birches Head and Sneyd Green as viewed from National Cycle Path 55
©Mike Eardley
Dist:0.6km<br/>Bridge No 13 on the Caldon Branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.6km<br/>Looking north towards Cromer Road Bridge, No 13.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.7km<br/>Seen from a narrowboat on the canal, this line, opened in 1849 and closed in 1988, still has the track in place on the embankment among the trees and other undergrowth. Re-opening soon from Stoke to Leek, and also Cauldon Low Quarry, is planned by the newly formed Moorland and City Railways Co. The eight mile section to the quarry is already in use.
©Roger Kidd

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