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Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking eastwards, from Elton Reservoir, towards the industrial units at Warth.
©David Dixon
Dist:0.2km<br/>The building in the picture was built more than a hundred years ago, though the church was apparently founded some fifty years earlier. Closed in the 1960s, it is now used by a haulage company. Although not visible in the picture, the Metrolink tram line from Bury to Manchester runs on the embankment immediately to the west of the building.
©Dennis Turner
Dist:0.2km<br/>The last remaining cottages of the old Warth village. During WW2, on the land in front of these cottages, there was an Army Camp housing the military guards for the Prisoners of War who were housed in a former Textile mill nearby.
©Dennis Turner
Dist:0.2km<br/>The Metrolink tramway, passing Bury Loco Junction, behind Derby High School.
©David Dixon
Dist:0.2km<br/>Approaching the end of navigation as the canal approaches Bury.
©David Dixon
Dist:0.2km<br/>The end of the Bury branch of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal. The canal has been filled in from here.
©David Dixon
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©andy dolman
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©Nigel Chadwick
Dist:0.2km<br/>Originally opened as a grammar school in the 1960s. This school became a comprehensive in 1980. Named after the Earl of Derby
©Nigel Chadwick
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©andy dolman
Dist:0.3km<br/>The towpath from Hinds Lane.
©David Dixon
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal, just north of Hinds Lane.
©David Dixon
Dist:0.3km<br/>The most surprising thing about these trams is how noisy they are on open rails, and the whole of this part of the Irwell valley is aware a tram is passing.
©Bill Boaden
Dist:0.3km<br/>River Irwell as it passes Lower Hinds. Taken from Hinds Lane.
©David Dixon
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©Nigel Chadwick

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