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©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.2km<br/>Seen from Ward Lane, Lee Cross is on the old road from Standedge through Saddleworth to Mottram.
©Michael Fox
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking south from the road bridge to the south of Diggle
©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.2km<br/>Perhaps to avoid flooding, the little stream crosses the Huddersfield Narrow Canal alongside bridge no. 66.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.2km<br/>The last lock of the Diggle Flight. Just north of where the canal passes beneath Ward Lane.
©michael ely
Dist:0.2km<br/>Nearing the top of the flight near Ward Lane the Geoffrey Dickens Lock - named after the late Member of Parliament.
©Nigel Homer
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©Chris Wimbush
Dist:0.2km<br/>Diggle was where the passenger and goods line from Standedge Tunnel exchanged tracks and then separated to opposite sides of the valley for the run to Stalybridge. The train in the distance is about to enter the tunnel, en route to Leeds.
©Peter Whatley
Dist:0.2km<br/>The Huddersfield Narrow Canal runs between Huddersfield in West Yorkshire and Ashton under Lyne in Greater Manchester. The lock gate in the picture is 32W at Diggle. These locks are unusual in having only one gate at each end, both being hung on the side opposite the towpath. A path runs along the canal opposite the towpath for the paddle operator. These arrangements were presumably designed to speed up the passage of boats, enabling the tow ropes to remain attached to horse and boat without snagging the lock gate arms. The canal opened in 1811 and closed in 1944. In 1974 the Huddersfield Canal Society was formed with the objective of seeing a re-opening of the canal and in May 2001 the whole canal became navigable once more http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/huddersfield/index.htm The ice on the canal was about three to four inches thick in places when this photograph was taken due to almost three weeks of continuous freezing weather conditions in the month of January 2009. [[1154803]]
©Paul Anderson
Dist:0.2km<br/>A Class '170' unit, forming a Manchester - Hull service, runs alongside a restored lock on the Huddersfield Canal near Diggle. A heron can be glimpsed behind the lock gate.
©Michael Fox
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Huddersfield Narrow Canal is aptly named as it is just wide enough to take the boat. This skipper waits to leave a lock just below the Standedge Tunnel, on his way towards Ashton-under-Lyne.
©David Ayrton
Dist:0.3km<br/>Lock 32W brings the Huddersfield Narrow Canal to its relatively short summit level, most of which is in tunnel.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.3km<br/>Two Northern Rail Class '142' "pacer" units, forming the 15.27 Manchester Victoria - Huddersfield local, pass the former Dobcross Loom Works at the approach to Diggle on the Stalybridge - Huddersfield line. Between 1885 and 1966 there were four lines here.
©Michael Fox
Dist:0.3km<br/>Wooden keep fit equipment has been installed around the stand of trees in this public open space.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking across the valley from the A670, Standedge Road. This is Diggle's old industrial corridor where the railway and canal head northwards into the Standedge Tunnel.
©michael ely

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