Rochdale Canal

Rochdale Canal
The castellated railway viaduct of the Manchester and Leeds Railway just south of Todmorden
Specifications
Locks	91 (92 as built; two locks merged)
Status	Open
Navigation authority	Canal & River Trust
History
Date of act	1794
Date completed	1804
Date closed	1952
Date restored	2002
Route map

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Legend
Calder and Hebble Navigation Start of canal 1-2 Sowerby Bridge Locks (2) Tuel Lane Tunnel under A58 3/4 Tuel Lane Lock 5-6 Brearley Locks (2)  A646  Halifax Road Bridge 7 Broadbottom Lock  A646  Falling Royd Bridge 8 Mayroyd Mill Lock Station Road, Hebden Bridge 9 Black Pit Lock Hebden Aqueduct Hebble End 10-11 Stubbing Locks (2) Stubbing Brink Caldervale Line 12 Rawden Mill Lock Pennine Way 13 Callis Lock Stoodley Glen 14 Holmcoat Lock Stoodley Lane Shaw Wood Road 15 Shawplains Lock 16 Lobb Mill Lock Haugh Road Woodhouse Road 17 Old Royd Lock Key Syke Lane Stack Hills Road 18 Shop Lock  A6033  Todmorden 19 Library Lock Dobroyd Road 20 Wadsworth Mill Lock 21 Shade Lock Caldervale Line 22-23 Gauxholme Locks (2)  A681  Gauxholme Arch 24 Gauxholme Highest Lock Caldervale Line  A6033  Copperas House Bridge 25 Smithyholm Lock 26 Pinnel Lock Alma Road 27 Hollings Lock Hollins Road Saint Peter's Gate 28-33 Locks (6) 34-35 Warland Locks (2) 36 Longlees Lock summit 37 West Summit Lock Chelburn River Roch 38-44 Locks (7) Sladen 45 Pikehouse Lock Lightowlers Lane 46-47 Locks (2)  A58  Halifax Road Ealees Road 48 Littleborough Bottom Lock  B6275  Little Clegg Road  A640  Milnrow Road Manchester Metrolink Oldham and Rochdale Line Burnside Road  A664  Kingsway Moss Bridge Road Rochdale Wharf 49-50 Moss Locks (2) Calder Valley line Bedford Street Mills arm Durham Street  A671  Rochdale Branch Junction Milkstone Road Dicken Green Lane  A664  Edinburgh Way Gorrels Way Heywood Wharf Green Lane 51 Blue Pits Highest Lock Canal Street  A664  Castleton Hope Street 52 Blue Pits Middle Lock Calder Valley line Montrose Street Old (blocked) route  M62  Heywood Branch Junction Blue Pits New Lock 53 Earl Street Old (blocked) route 54-55 Laneside Locks (2)  A664  Slattocks 56-58 Laneside Locks (3) Calder Valley line 59-60 Locks (2) 61 Scowcroft Lock Calder Valley line 62 Coney Green Lock 63 Walk Mill Lock River Irk Aqueduct  A669  Mills Hill Bridge 64 Kay Lane Lock Drummer Hill Branch Grimshaw Lane Lift Bridge The Causeway  A671   M60  and Semple Way  A6104  Hollinwood Avenue Manchester Metrolink Oldham and Rochdale Line 65 Failsworth Top Lock  A62  Oldham Road Sisson St/Failsworth new Bridge Ashton Road West 66-68 Tannersfield Locks (3) Droylsden Road 69 Newton Heath Lock Old Church Street 70-76 Newton Heath Locks (7) Huddersfield line 77 Anthony Lock Hulme Hall Lane A6010 78-80 Coalpit Locks (3) 81 Butler Lane Lock 82 Lock  A665  Great Ancoats Street 83 Brownsfield Lock Tariff Street Junction with Ashton Canal 84 Dale Street Lock Dale Street 85 Piccadilly Lock Aytoun Street Manchester Metrolink City Zone Minshull Street 86 Chorlton Street Lock Chorlton Street 87 Princess Street Lock 88 Oxford Street Lock Oxford Street Basins Manch'str & Salford Junc Canal Bridgewater Hall Basin 89 Tib Lock Albion Street 90 Albion Mills Lock 91 Tunnel Lock  A56  Deansgate Link to Bridgewater Arm Liverpool–Manchester railway 92 Duke's Lock Castle Street Castlefield Junction Bridgewater Canal

The Rochdale Canal is in Northern England, between Manchester and Sowerby Bridge, part of the connected system of the canals of Great Britain. Its name refers to the town of Rochdale through which it passes.

The Rochdale is a broad canal because its locks are wide enough to allow vessels of 14 feet (4.3 m) width. The canal runs for 32 miles (51 km) across the Pennines from the Bridgewater Canal at Castlefield Basin in Manchester to join the Calder and Hebble Navigation at Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire.

As built, the canal had 92 locks. Whilst the traditional lock numbering has been retained on all restored locks, and on the relocated locks, the canal now has 91. Locks 3 and 4 have been replaced with a single deep lock, Tuel Lane Lock, which is numbered 3/4.