This was a wide section of canal. Gawber Old Colliery once stood alongside the canal on the left side along this stretch.
Looking back eastwards as the canal begins to dry up. The brown areas show where the canal was.
Suddenly the canal line vanishes altogether for nearly half a mile. This area became an opencast mine after the canal closed.
When extraction was complete, the site was restored as a level field.
The contours of the hillside are now gone but the canal ran toward the right of the photo and then curved round towards the trees in the centre.
Looking back towards Barnsley from the other side of the former opencast working. The line of the canal can be detected at first by the slighly raised line of the towpath embankment on the left. The canal then curved slowly round to the trees on the extreme right of the picture.
Looking westwards along the line of the canal towards Barugh.
The canal begins to appear again as a damp depression between two banks, with trees lining the right hand side.
The canal is now lined with trees on both sides. The towpath on the right is still walkable but is badly eroded in places.
Towards the end of this section, there is water in the canal bed.
Looking back towards Barnsley.
