About this website
Pennine Waterways is a personal website run as a "labour of love" and has no connection with the Canal and River Trust (or the former British Waterways).
Information shown in this web site was believed to be correct at the time of publication but should not be relied on. Important information should be checked, for example, when planning journeys or visits. Responsibility cannot be accepted for problems arising from inaccurate or out-of-date information. If you believe any information to be incorrect you are welcome to bring this to the attention of the webmaster.
A little history
The Pennine Waterways web site began in 1998 and grew rapidly during 1999, from a group of pages about The Huddersfield Narrow Canal on the Ashton under Lyne web site. The content quickly grew to include the Rochdale, Ashton and Peak Forest Canals and was made into a separate site on its own server.
A major project undertaken was to report regularly with photographic updates on the progress of the Huddersfield Canal restoration. This proved very popular, attracting a large number of visitors. Similar coverage was later given to the restoration of the Rochdale Canal.
A feature of the site is the virtual cruise that can be taken along most of the canals covered. This is being improved as older photographs are replaced with better quality newer ones.
Keeping the Pennine Waterways site up to date with pictures of the restoration work on the Huddersfield Canal took up a lot of time during 2000 and 2001. The restoration of the Rochdale canal also kept me busy in 2001 and 2002. it was not until late in 2002 that I had the time to carry out a much-needed overhaul of the entire website.
A longer term aim has been to extend the site's coverage to include other waterways in the Pennine area. Already online are pages about the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal, Bridgewater Canal and about waterways in Manchester and Salford, including Salford Quays and Castlefield. The website also covers the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, Aire and Calder Navigation, Calder and Hebble Navigation, Barnsley Canal, Dearne and Dove Canal, Bradford Canal and Macclesfield Canal. The latest section of the website covers the North Yorkshire Waterways including Selby, York and Ripon.
The site includes an "online shopping" section in which I have chosen links to a wide selection of canal guides and books, Ordnance Survey maps and books about the local areas which can be purchased through amazon.co.uk.
There is a "desktop wallpaper" section from which you can take your pick from a selection of higher quality canal pictures to use as the background for your computer desktop.
I am starting to add pages of archive photographs about some canals and I am grateful to those people who have supplied and let me use photographs here.
Towards the end of 2004 I began the task of upgrading the website to make it more "future-proof", more accessible, more compliant with a range of browsers and faster for each page to download. This was done by re-writing the pages to make use of CSS layout and by improving font sizing.
I am pleased to receive comments and suggestions from visitors to the site and take notice of the comments made when carrying out alterations.
Acknowledgements
I am grateful to Frank Smith and Bob Gough of the Huddersfield Canal Society for their assistance with information and photographs. I am also grateful to John and Margaret Fletcher, David Schofield, Alan Taylor, Ken Wright, Martin Millsom, Gary Metcalfe, Ian McCarthy, Dave Hill, Richard Feeney, Nick Catford, Mike Dilger, JW Harrop, David Long, Neil Arlidge, Peter Stockdale, Sue Day and to Costain Ltd, Balfour Beatty, British Waterways and others for permission to use photographs.
Copyright
Unless otherwise stated, all photographs, maps and text are the copyright of Pennine Waterways. They may be downloaded or printed for personal use, such as to take with you when walking a canal towpath. They may not be reproduced or re-published, for example: in a book or on another web site, without permission. Where such permission may be given, acknowledgement must be made to "www.penninewaterways.co.uk".
Higher resolution versions of all photographs exist in .jpg format and may be available by request.
Accuracy
Every care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information on this site, but no responsibility can be accepted for any inconvenience arising from errors. All links to external sites have been checked and should work, but may have been altered without my knowledge. If you find any broken links or other errors on this site, please contact me.
Privacy and Cookies
Cookies may be used by this website for the purposes of gathering statistics. Personal information is not collected by such cookies.
Where any personal information is requested by this site, for example an email address when sending a message, that information is used only for that purpose and is not made available to anyone else.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file put in your browser when you visit a web page. It can track how you use our site and help us to make improvements, but they don't tell us who you are.
Why do you use cookies?
We use analytics cookies to help us understand how people find and use the site, which pages are most popular, how many pages people typically look at, etc. These cookies are operated by third parties (e.g. Sitemeter, Statcounter) on our behalf. These cookies may tell us which country or region your are in but are otherwise anonymous and do not contain or collect any information that identifies you.
Are you spying on me?
No! The cookies may be able to tell us if you have arrived at the website by following a link on another site. If you have arrived from search engine results, the cookies may be able to tell what you were searching for. This information is useful to us in helping us to understand how people reach the site and what information they are looking for. It helps us to make improvements to the site. Such information is not used for other purposes and does not identify you.
What about cookies from other sites?
Content is also served to these web pages by third parties, such as Amazon.co.uk and Google. These third parties may also collect information directly from visitors, and place or recognise cookies on visitors' web browsers.
This web site may occasionally use components from social media, like Facebook or Twitter, which may use cookies. These will recognise if you are currently logged into one of these services, but will have no effect if you are not registered with or logged in to these social media sites.
The Sitemeter service is partly funded by using SpecificClick cookies. These do not identify you personally or harm your computer but they may occasionally result in you seeing advertisements on other websites that are intended to reflect your interests.
What should I do about it?
Cookies of this sort are not harmful to your computer and can improve your online experience by recognising you when you return to a web site or remembering your previous purchases, etc.
If you are fine about this, we would suggest that you take no action and allow cookies to be used. Your consent to these cookies being used will be implied.
If you are unhappy about the use of cookies you can, if you wish, set your web browser (Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc.) not to accept them or to delete them.
For more information about cookies, including how to delete or control them, follow this link: www.aboutcookies.org
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A useful tool for controlling which cookies to allow and which to block is the Cookie Monster add-on for the Firefox web browser.
Relationship with Amazon.co.uk
Pennine Waterways is a participant in the Amazon Europe Associates Programme, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk. By clicking on these links you are leaving Pennine Waterways and going to Amazon.co.uk's web site. Any transactions you then make are between you and Amazon.co.uk. Pennine Waterways is not involved in these transactions but may receive a referral fee for qualifying items purchased.
Linking to Pennine Waterways
The World Wide Web grows by sites linking to one another. The Canal Links Page has a selection of such links. I would be pleased to hear of suggestions for other suitable links.
If you would like to place a link to Pennine Waterways from your own site, there are details on the Linking to Pennine Waterways page.
For the convenience of visitors I have gathered together a collection of Search Engines and links to find other sites that may be of interest. Click here to go to the Searchbox site. The first page has a meta-search which looks through several engines at the same time. You might want to bookmark it so that you can use it for all your searching!
Pennine Waterways is part of the UK Waterways Web Ring, linking together websites about canals and waterways.
Pennine Waterways also belongs to other web rings which visitors may find interesting to explore. Check these out on the Web Ring page or Links page.
The original Ashton under Lyne web site has now moved to its own server. There are links to it from this site or it can be reached through the address www.ashton-under-lyne.com.
If you have any comments about these pages, please contact me.
