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Waterhouses Tunnel (or Dark Tunnel or Boodle Tunnel) on the Hollinwood Branch Canal was opened out in the 1920s. It now forms part of Daisy Nook Country Park and carries a footpath and bridle way through the cutting.
©Martin Clark
The 80 feet high Waterhouses Aqueduct carried the Hollinwood Branch Canal across the River Medlock at Daisy Nook Country Park
©Martin Clark
The remains of the disused Hollinwood Branch Canal pass through Daisy Nook Country Park between Ashton under Lyne and Oldham. There were four locks here (Waterhouses Locks) including this unusual lock staircase. More about the canal can be found at www.hollinwoodcanal.co.uk
©Martin Clark
Dist:0.1km<br/>A nondenominational establishment on Newmarket Road.
©Gerald England
Dist:0.1km<br/>A nondenominational establishment on Newmarket Road.
©Gerald England
Dist:0.1km<br/>Looking west, along Newmarket Road in the Taunton area of Ashton-Under-Lyne.
©David Dixon
Dist:0.1km<br/>Off Newmarket Road.
©Gerald England
Dist:0.2km<br/>Leading from Ashton under Lyne to Daisy Nook and Littlemoss.
©Gerald England
Dist:0.2km<br/>Taunton Hall is a grade II listed building on Newmarket Road in the Taunton area of Ashton Under Lyne. (For listing details, see http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-212671-taunton-hall-ashton-under-lyne ).
©David Dixon
Dist:0.2km<br/>Taunton Hall is a grade II listed building on Newmarket Road in the Taunton area of Ashton Under Lyne. (For listing details, see http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-212671-taunton-hall-ashton-under-lyne ).
©David Dixon
Dist:0.2km<br/>Shop at the corner of Newmarket Road and Downing Street, Ashton-Under-Lyne.
©David Dixon
Dist:0.3km<br/>Downing Street, in the Taunton Area of Ashton-Under-Lyne.
©David Dixon
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Woodcock Inn, on Newmarket Road, Ashton-Under-Lyne
©David Dixon
Dist:0.4km<br/>Small sections of it are preserved, as here in Daisy Nook Country Park. Further back in the car park is the John Howarth Countryside Centre.
©Bill Boaden
Dist:0.4km<br/>Winter morning sunlight and last of the autumn colours. Daisy Nook Country Park.
©John Topping

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