27-708: Dukinfield Junction ( grid reference SJ933984 ) is the name of the canal junction where the Peak Forest Canal , the Ashton Canal and the Huddersfield Narrow Canal meet near Ashton-under-Lyne , Greater Manchester , England . The area has been designated by Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council as a conservation area. It is adjacent to Portland Basin , and the names are often used as synonyms by boaters, whilst locals refer only to Portland Basin. Strictly speaking, Portland Basin
54-487: A line shaft . Using a suspension system, akin to the spokes on a bicycle, allowed the wheel to be lighter than the wooden one it replaced. Taking the power train off the rim rather than from axle reduces the stress and gears up the line-shaft leading to less power loss. Portland Basin is the location of the Portland Basin Museum, housed within the restored nineteenth century Ashton Canal Warehouse, covering
81-622: Is the wide area on the main line of the canal. The arm under the junction bridge and the aqueduct over the River Tame were built by the Ashton Canal, and the junction with the Peak Forest canal was historically at the southern end of the aqueduct. The Ashton Canal was authorised by an Act of Parliament obtained in 1792, to connect the coal mining area around Oldham and the textile mills of Ashton-under-Lyne to Manchester . It
108-632: The Mersey and contains the great majority of the final flow (with the exception of waste water from a concrete facility). The river has been a border from the earliest times between the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Northumbria and Mercia . For its course after the Division Bridge in Mossley the river marks much of the historical boundary dividing Cheshire and Lancashire . The Tame joins
135-526: The Pennine Way . The highest point of the catchment is Greater Manchester's highest point at Black Chew Head . The river flows generally south through Delph , Uppermill , Mossley , Stalybridge , Ashton-under-Lyne , Dukinfield , Haughton Green , Denton and Hyde . The Division Bridge (which spans the river at Mossley ), marks the meeting point of the traditional boundaries of Lancashire , Yorkshire and Cheshire . The section through Stalybridge
162-563: The Pennines . It was a huge undertaking, with 74 locks and the longest canal tunnel in Britain at Standedge . Sections were opened at both ends as they were completed, with that from Ashton to Greenfield opening in 1798. The canal was not fully opened until 1811, with the completion of the tunnel. It joins the Ashton Canal end-on at the junction. The Huddersfield Narrow Canal was abandoned in 1944. The Peak Forest Canal had ceased to be used by
189-747: The River Goyt at Stockport , forming the River Mersey which eventually flows into the Irish Sea just past Liverpool . The name Tame is attached to rivers across the UK in several forms, including Thames , Thame , Taff , and Tamar , alongside two other instances of Tame . The name is Celtic in origin, but the meaning is uncertain. Dark river or dark one has been suggested, but Ekwall finds it unlikely; Mills suggests it may simply mean river (c.f. Avon , Humber , Tyne ). The names of
216-475: The Fairfield locks begin the descent to Manchester. The Peak Forest Canal heads south, and is level for 7 miles (11 km) to the first of the sixteen Marple Locks. It passes through two short tunnels at Woodley and Hyde Bank, the second of which is slightly too narrow to allow two boats to pass. The Huddersfield Narrow Canal heads to the north-east, and passes through a tunnel under an Asda supermarket to reach
243-538: The Goyt had passed through a sewage works. The anti-pollution efforts of the last thirty years of the 20th century have resulted in the positive fauna distributions listed below. The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology measures the flow at two points for the National River Flow Archive, at Portwood weir (Stockport) and at Broomstairs weir (Denton). Portwood weir is 1¼ miles above the confluence with
270-510: The Mersey's co-tributaries Etherow and Goyt are equally ancient and mysterious. Mersey is an Old English name (i.e. more recent) derived from "river at the boundary". The earlier name is lost: Dodgson suggests that Tame may have been the name for the whole of the Mersey. The Metropolitan Borough of Tameside is named after the river. While it flows through the borough, the river neither rises nor finishes inside its boundaries; however, most of
297-511: The area's industrial heritage. The warehouse was built in 1834, and interprets aspects of local history, industry and trades. Exhibits include a 1920s period street with shops, period room displays and historic machines. The Portland Basin hosts the Wooden Canal Boat Society which has restored and works six traditional narrowboats . The Society was formed as a charitable company limited by guarantee in 1996, and took over
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#1732773152511324-524: The assets of the former Wooden Canal Boat Trust in 1997. It became a registered charity in 1998, and the first boat was moved to Portland Basin Museum in 1996. The junction is located on the southern edge of Ashton-under-Lyne, and the Ashton Canal approaches it from the south-east. The canal is level for 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to Fairfield Junction, where the Hollinwood Branch turned north, and
351-499: The border with the modern metropolitan county of West Yorkshire but within the historic West Riding of Yorkshire . Most of the river's catchment lies on the western flank of the Pennines . The named river starts as compensation flow (that is, a guaranteed minimum discharge ) from Readycon Dean Reservoir in the moors above Denshaw . The source is a little further north, just over the county border in West Yorkshire, close to
378-648: The built-up area alongside the river is in Tameside. The fish species present vary along the river's length. The lower reaches (near Reddish Vale Country Park) are home to coarse fish such as gudgeon ( Gobio gobio ), chub ( Leuciscus cephalus ), and roach ( Rutilus rutilus ); pike ( Esox lucius ) and perch ( Perca fluviatilis ) are also present. The upper reaches (above Ashton) support brown trout ( Salmo trutta ) and smaller numbers of some coarse fish. The populations are self-sustaining. Migratory fish such as Atlantic salmon and sea trout cannot navigate
405-479: The canal opened in 1800. A temporary tramway bypassed the locks until they were completed four years later. The Ashton Canal built a short section of canal southwards from the junction, which included an aqueduct over the River Tame , and the Peak Forest Canal officially started at the southern end of the aqueduct. The Huddersfield Narrow Canal was also authorised in 1794, and is one of three which cross
432-406: The canal was 3 storeys high and it had three shipping holes. The northern elevation which opens to the road is two storeys high, trap doors allowed split loading and unloading between the road and the 3 canal arms. The roof was flat allowing increased storage. The building we see today is the result of a 1998 restoration. The internal hoist system was powered by an external waterwheel. The head race
459-540: The details below. Request from 172.68.168.133 via cp1102 cp1102, Varnish XID 555156785 Upstream caches: cp1102 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:52:32 GMT River Tame, Greater Manchester The River Tame flows through Greater Manchester , England. It rises on Denshaw Moor and flows to Stockport where it joins the River Goyt to form the River Mersey . The Tame rises on Denshaw Moor in Greater Manchester , close to
486-463: The dyes and bleaches used in textile mills, effluent from specialised paper-making cigarette papers , engineering effluents, including base metal washings from battery manufacture, phenols from the huge coal-gas plant in Denton, rain-wash from roads and abandoned coal spoil heaps there was also the sewage effluent from the surrounding population. Up to two-thirds of the river's flow at its confluence with
513-477: The first of 32 locks that ascend to Standedge Tunnel, 0.4 miles (0.64 km) from the junction. A slender bridge carries the towpath over the line to the aqueduct and the Peak Forest Canal. It carries the date 1835, and is a grade II listed structure. Nearby is Cavendish Mill , a former cotton spinning mill built in 1884-5, and one of the first to use steel girders and lintel plates to support concrete floors, rather than using brick arches. The construction method
540-778: The restoration of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal began in the same year, but was not completed until 2001, helped by public funding from the Millennium Commission. The Ashton Canal Warehouse was built at the Portland Basin in 1834 by the canal company replacing the early warehouse to the east. It is a three-storey warehouse 200 feet (61 m) by 72 feet (22 m), brick built in English garden wall bond . The wooden floors are supported by cast iron columns. The southern elevation which opened to
567-435: The river as the weir at Reddish Vale is too tall and has no fish pass. Furthermore, are all declared as salmonid waters by statute, and as such have set physical and chemical water quality objectives. Hull Brook is a Site of Biological Importance (SBI) . Hull Brook and Castleshaw Reservoir have populations of white-clawed crayfish . The river is now clean enough in principle to support otters , but none were found in
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#1732773152511594-704: The start of the Second World War in 1939, and the Ashton Canal was unnavigable by 1962. However, the Peak Forest Canal Society was formed, and working with the British Waterways Board , the local councils through which the canals ran, and the Inland Waterways Association , the Ashton Canal and the lower Peak Forest Canal were reopened in 1974, bringing the junction back into use. A campaign for
621-415: Was authorised two years after the Ashton Canal, to access limestone reserves at Doveholes, near Whaley Bridge . The final 6.5 miles (10.5 km) were built as a tramway, as the quarries were too high to make access by canal economic, and the limestone was transhipped to barges at Bugsworth Basin . The canal is on two levels separated by a flight of locks at Marple which had not been completed when most of
648-889: Was heavily-locked, with 18 locks in 6.5 miles (10.5 km). During construction, the company obtained a second Act to allow them to build the Hollinwood Branch Canal , the Stockport Canal and the Beat Bank Branch Canal . The line to Ashton and the branch to Hollinwood were both opened in December 1796, and the Stockport Branch opened in January 1797, but the Beat Bank Branch was never completed. The Peak Forest Canal
675-479: Was once mooted as a diversion route for the restoration of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal although the canal was later de-culverted along a different route. At the end of its course, the confluence with the River Goyt forms the River Mersey at Stockport . The 19th-century industrial concentrations in the above-named urban areas resulted in the Tame being a much polluted waterway. As well as industrial pollution from
702-587: Was pioneered by Edward Potts, who failed to obtain a patent for the design in 1884. The junction is the location for the Tameside Canals Festival, held in mid-July each year. 53°28′57″N 2°05′59″W / 53.4826°N 2.0997°W / 53.4826; -2.0997 Ordnance Survey National Grid Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
729-412: Was taken from the canal, and the tailrace fed down to the River Tame 33 feet (10 m) below. The high breastshot waterwheel was constructed in 1841 to a suspension design introduced by Thomas Hewes and William Armstrong Fairburn and had rim gearing. It cost £1078. It was 24 feet (7.3 m) in diameter and 3 feet (0.9 m) in width and produced 15 hp (11 kW). Power was transmitted by
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