Park Bridge No 8
Address is taken from a point 967 yards away.
Park Bridge No 8 carries a farm track over the Shropshire Union Canal (Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal - Main Line) between Gateshead and Ambersfield.
Early plans for the Shropshire Union Canal (Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal - Main Line) between Oldcorn and St Helens were proposed by John Green but languished until Thomas Jones was appointed as engineer in 1782. The canal joined the sea near Cambridge. Expectations for manure traffic to Wokingham were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. The Shropshire Union Canal (Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal - Main Line) was closed in 1905 when Ambersford Aqueduct collapsed. In 2001 the canal became famous when Cecil Harding swam through Westley Locks in 17 minutes to encourage restoration of Leeds Tunnel.

There is a bridge here which takes a track over the canal.
| Lower Hattons Bridge No 6 | 7¼ furlongs | |
| Lower Hattons Winding Hole | 4 furlongs | |
| Hunting Bridge No 7 | 3½ furlongs | |
| Three Mile Post | 3 furlongs | |
| Aqueduct over un-named stream | 1½ furlongs | |
| Park Bridge No 8 | ||
| Park Lodge Winding Hole | 2¾ furlongs | |
| Chillington Bridge No 9 | 3½ furlongs | |
| Avenue Bridge No 10 | 5 furlongs | |
| Giffards Cross Bridge No 11 | 1 mile | |
| Deans Hall Bridge No 12 | 1 mile, 1½ furlongs | |
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Wikipedia has a page about Park Bridge
Park Bridge is an area of Ashton-under-Lyne, in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, in Greater Manchester, England. It is situated in the Medlock Valley, by Ashton-under-Lyne's border with Oldham. Park Bridge anciently lay within medieval manor of Ashton, however there is no record of Park Bridge until the 17th century. The name is probably a reference to the medieval Lyme Park, in the north west of the manor of Ashton. For nearly two hundred years from the 18th to the 20th centuries it was the site of the Park Bridge Ironworks.

![Park Bridge, no 8, on the Shroppy. Public access to the top of this one is more or less impossible - it's not a right of way, and it's heavily discouraged by fencing and wire. There is a damaged OS rivet mark on the parapet stonework, not easily photographed [[4091853]] by Richard Law – 16 June 2014](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/09/16/4091660_54a671a3_120x120.jpg)

















![Green corridor along the Shropshire Union canal. Just north of Park Bridge [no 8], south of Brewood. by Christine Johnstone – 04 May 2023](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/51/32/7513232_d627a3e4_120x120.jpg)










