David Cragg wrote: > One 'easy' line for a branch to Leek from the Trent and Mersey north > of Etruria would be to roughly follow the line of the Maccy from > north of Harecastle to near the Dane below Bosley, then head past > what is now Rudyard reservoir to Leek. Given the canal building > methods at that time the line would have a few more twists and turns > than the Maccy which was built 50 years later.
Agreed this is a logical route (maybe the only one actually) but the map on Mike's site doesn't make it clear what was intended. I'll ask around among the CUCT crowd. > At one time recently there was a proposal to build a new bit of > canal linking the Caldon, Leek branch, to the Maccy with a junction > below Bosley Locks. Does anyone know if this very sane, sensible > and useful bit of new canal has any hope of getting built? Macclesfield CS keep the flag flying on it I believe. We in the CUCT are more focussed on going south to Uttoxeter at the moment, though I'm sure we'd be very supportive of any proposal. Cheers, Steve
