--- In [email protected], "Keir Gale" <keir.g...@...> wrote:
> > -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of colin wareing >> Subject: [canals-list] 4th County of the 4 counties? >> The 4th county would have been Lancashire which became part of Manchester in >> 1974. > > Phil > > 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. > > Keir > >Posted by: "Martin Clark" [email protected] penninewaterways Wed Feb 17, 2010 2:17 pm (PST) >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.-- >Martin Clark And the real answer is that Manchester ceased to be part of Lancashire administratively in 1889, and therefore the Rochdale Canal and Ashton Canal (to the Droylsden boundary, now Tameside) were in Manchester from 1889. Steve
