On 17 February 2010 21:31, Martin Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > Keir Gale wrote: >> >> Or rather, Manchester ceased to be administratively part of Lancs in '74. >> But I don't think that works either.... I'm sure the Cheshire sections of >> the ring have always been Cheshire. It doesn't get as far as Greater >> Manchester. > > Oh, really? > > The parts of the Cheshire Ring within Greater Manchester are from Little > Bollington Aqueduct, through Altrincham, Sale and Stretford to > Castlefield on the Bridgewater; the Rochdale Nine; the Ashton Canal; the > Lower Peak Forest and Marple Locks; and from Marple to High Lane on the > Macclesfield. That's quite a big chunk of the Cheshire Ring. > > What's more, the Rochdale Nine and the Ashton Canal were entirely in > Lancashire before 1974.
Very interesting - but none of the stretches of canal which you mention are on the Four Counties Ring, the subject of the thread. The 'missing' county is West Midlands. -- Bob
