We leave our overnight stop in Lymm and start a 14 mile journey to Runcorn. We pass through the urban district of Grappenhall and Stock ton Heath before the canal opens out into some rolling countryside. Watch out for the imposing tower of Daresbury Laboratories which opened in the 1960’s. The site chosen for the sandstone bedrock which would provide a stable base for delicate instruments and the canal a source of water for cooling. As we head south we soon approach the junction to the Runcorn Branch of the Bridgewater Canal. Here the busy M56 crosses the Preston Brook Branch and there is a boatyard beyond. However we head West along the Runcorn Branch and cross the Norton Aquaduct over the railway. Watch out for the Norton Water Tower on the skyline ahead. We pass the short Norton Arm where the historic former warehouse is now a kayak centre, with Preston Brook Marina directly opposite. We continue heading West where the canal terminates at Waterloo Bridge, before the road was built here two of the arches led to a flight of locks down to the Manchester ship Canal and the River Mersey. Here we wind amongst the Bridgewater Motor Boat Club moorings and moor just before the Brindley Theatre.
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We leave our overnight stop in Lymm and start a 14 mile journey to Runcorn. We pass through the urban district of Grappenhall and Stock ton Heath before the canal opens out into some rolling countryside. Watch out for the imposing tower of Daresbury Laboratories which opened in the 1960’s. The site chosen for the sandstone bedrock which would provide a stable base for delicate instruments and the canal a source of water for cooling. As we head south we soon approach the junction to the Runcorn Branch of the Bridgewater Canal. Here the busy M56 crosses the Preston Brook Branch and there is a boatyard beyond. However we head West along the Runcorn Branch and cross the Norton Aquaduct over the railway. Watch out for the Norton Water Tower on the skyline ahead. We pass the short Norton Arm where the historic former warehouse is now a kayak centre, with Preston Brook Marina directly opposite. We continue heading West where the canal terminates at Waterloo Bridge, before the road was built here two of the arches led to a flight of locks down to the Manchester ship Canal and the River Mersey. Here we wind amongst the Bridgewater Motor Boat Club moorings and moor just before the Brindley Theatre.
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