Outer Pennine Ring

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The Outer Pennine Ring is a canal ring which crosses the pennines between Manchester and Leeds.

[edit] History

Whilst the concept of canal rings had begun in the 1960s with the Cheshire Ring, the Outer Pennine Ring is a recent addition, as it was only with the restoration of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal in 2001 that the ring became a possibility.

The term was coined by enthusiasts as an adjunct to the South Pennine Ring, devised as a marketing tool by British Waterways.

[edit] Component canals

Clockwise from Manchester (Castlefields Junction):

• Bridgewater Canal
• Leeds and Liverpool Canal
• Aire and Calder Navigation
• Calder and Hebble Navigation
• Huddersfield Broad Canal
• Huddersfield Narrow Canal
• Ashton Canal
• Rochdale Canal