Marple Junction
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Marple Junction (grid reference SJ961884) is the name of the canal junction where the Macclesfield Canal terminates and meets the Peak Forest Canal at Marple, Greater Manchester, England.
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Marple Junction | |
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Specifications | |
Status | Open |
Navigation authority | Canal & River Trust |
History | |
Date completed | 1831 |
Date closed | 1939 |
Date restored | 1974 |
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The water of the two canal companies was kept apart by a stop lock in the narrows at the end of the later Macclesfield Canal, but this has long since been de-gated and the two canals run at the same level.[1]