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Macclesfield Canal

Date of Act
Date opened (completely)
Terminus points
 
Length
Locks
Former railway ownership

April 1826
9th November 1831
Marple (Peak Forest canal), Kidsgrove (Trent & Mersey canal)
27.75 miles (26.125 to Hall Green stop lock)
13 (including Hall Green stop lock)
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne & Manchester [Great Central Railway Company] (from 1846)