Skipton Bypass Bridge No 175A carries a farm track over the Leeds and Liverpool Canal (Main Line - Wigan to Leeds) near to Knowsley.
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal (Main Line - Wigan to Leeds) was built by Nicholas Clarke and opened on January 1 1835. The canal joined the sea near Blackburn. Expectations for sea sand traffic to Polecroft were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. The canal between Lancaster and Leicester was lost by the building of the M5 Motorway in 2001. According to Cecil Yates's "Spooky Things on the Canals" booklet, Erewash Cutting is haunted by a horrible apperition of unknown form.

There is a bridge here which takes a major road over the canal.
| Thorlby Swing Bridge No 174 | 1 mile, 4 furlongs | |
| Road Bridge No 174A | 6¼ furlongs | |
| Stirton Aqueduct No 41 | 5½ furlongs | |
| Gawber Hill Winding Hole | 5 furlongs | |
| Niffany Swing Bridge No 175 | 1½ furlongs | |
| Skipton Bypass Bridge No 175A | ||
| Gawflat Pipe Bridge | 5¼ furlongs | |
| Gawflat Swing Bridge No 176 | 6 furlongs | |
| Brewery Swing Bridge No 177 | 7¼ furlongs | |
| Eller Beck Aqueduct No 42 | 7¾ furlongs | |
| Skipton Junction | 1 mile, ½ furlongs | |
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![View to A629 bridge over Leeds & Liverpool Canal from point 97 miles from Liverpool. There is a canal milepost [[7752079]] in the right foreground on the right hand side of the towpath by Roger Templeman – 26 March 2024](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/76/33/7763341_3ce685b7_120x120.jpg)


![A walk from Skipton to Gargrave [11]. The A629 road, now bypassing Skipton, is carried over the canal.The walk follows the towpath of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal out of Skipton before following a lane onto the A6069 road. After crossing the A59 road at Inghey Bridge, the path runs across fields to pass underneath the railway. The path then runs alongside the railway before it veers right past Kirk Sink to Gargrave. About 4¼ miles. by Michael Dibb – 22 June 2021](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/02/22/7022261_968bbf71_120x120.jpg)














![A629 viaduct across the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. The A629 at this point forms the western part of the Skipton bypass. The viaduct also crosses Broughton Road (parallel to the canal) and part of the Aire valley flood plain, as seen in [[76637]]. by Stephen Craven – 21 June 2009](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/39/55/1395500_b76f749d_120x120.jpg)
![Leeds and Liverpool Canal heading north at 30¼ miles from Leeds. There is a canal milepost [[7752079]] in the left foreground on the left hand side of the towpath by Roger Templeman – 26 March 2024](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/76/36/7763630_9233eae9_120x120.jpg)



![Allotments on south side of Broughton Road. There is a boundary stone [[4775275]] beside the wall at the right hand side of the entrance road to the allotments by Roger Templeman – 10 August 2015](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/77/52/4775278_264d9f65_120x120.jpg)


![Looking east along Broughton Road as it passes Skipton Allotments. In front of the end of the wall at the allotment entrance is a boundary stone [[4775275]] which marks the boundary on Skipton Local Board and Stirton with Thoralby parish by Roger Templeman – 03 May 2023](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/47/36/7473600_cb85dad2_120x120.jpg)