Rodley Water Pipe Crossing Bridge carries a footpath over the Leeds and Liverpool Canal (Main Line - Wigan to Leeds) between Bracknell and Port Talbot.
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 pipe over the canal.
| Horsforth Road Bridge No 216A | 5 furlongs | |
| Rodley Swing Bridge No 217 | 3½ furlongs | |
| Rodley Wharf Visitor Moorings | 3¼ furlongs | |
| The Rodley Barge PH | 3 furlongs | |
| Moss Swing Bridge No 218 | a few yards | |
| Rodley Water Pipe Crossing Bridge | ||
| Ross Mill Swing Bridge No 219 | 4½ furlongs | |
| Site of Swing Bridge No 220 | 7¼ furlongs | |
| Fallwood Marina | 7¾ furlongs | |
| Newlay Stone Bridge No 221 | 1 mile, 1¼ furlongs | |
| Newlay Staircase Locks Nos 11 to 13 | 1 mile, 2½ furlongs | |
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In and out of Leeds from Scribblings from the Mintball posted Saturday the 12th of July, 1980
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![Reconstruction of Moss Bridge. The canal bridge [[4722000]] was being rebuilt as a two-lane bridge to permit construction traffic (and eventually residential traffic) access to a housing development on the north bank of the canal on the former Airedale Mills site. by Stephen Craven – 06 February 2022](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/09/04/7090425_d6767317_120x120.jpg)





![Canal boat passing Moss Bridge. Two of the crew of the narrowboat had manually opened the swing bridge to allow the boat to pass. See [[4722000]] for the bridge in its usual position closed to canal traffic. by Stephen Craven – 07 August 2020](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/06/56/56/6565601_12d00b80_120x120.jpg)
![Moss Bridge, rebuilt (1). The reconstruction of this swing bridge to allow HGVs to access a constructions site had started about a year earlier [[7090425]] but was completed by the end of 2022. Note the tarmac surfaced ramp raising the towpath level to that of the new bridge. by Stephen Craven – 07 January 2023](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/37/72/7377255_69fd18ff_120x120.jpg)
![Moss Bridge, rebuilt (2). Compare this swing bridge completed in 2022 with its partly wooden predecessor [[4722000]]. by Stephen Craven – 07 January 2023](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/37/72/7377257_8a46b0c8_120x120.jpg)


![End of pipe bridge. I'm guessing the fitting on top of the white painted standpipe is an air valve or similar. See [[4880331]] for context. by Stephen Craven – 12 December 2021](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/04/26/7042685_09038f3e_120x120.jpg)
![You can take a dog to water.... The man in the photo was trying to persuade the dog to drink from the canal, but the dog was having none of it. For context see [[2746417]]. by Stephen Craven – 25 October 2015](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/72/20/4722000_c959daf1_120x120.jpg)


![Canal stoppage south-east of Moss Bridge. The canal bridge [[4722000]] was being rebuilt as a two-lane bridge to permit construction traffic (and eventually residential traffic) access to a housing development on the north bank of the canal on the former Airedale Mills site. by Stephen Craven – 06 February 2022](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/09/04/7090424_72387b78_120x120.jpg)






![Access to Rodley Nature Reserve. The start has been resurfaced in connection with the rebuilding of the adjacent canal bridge. Compare a similar view in 2017 [[5356690]]. by Stephen Craven – 07 January 2023](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/37/72/7377268_c5b06def_120x120.jpg)


![Canal stoppage north-west of Moss Bridge. The canal bridge [[4722000]] was being rebuilt as a two-lane bridge to permit construction traffic (and eventually residential traffic) access to a housing development on the north bank of the canal on the former Airedale Mills site. by Stephen Craven – 06 February 2022](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/09/04/7090429_566e77ba_120x120.jpg)


![Former weighbridge, Moss Bridge Road, Rodley . Possibly associated with the factory on the right, formerly the Crane and Excavator Works of Thomas Smith & Sons (Rodley) Ltd, which probably closed in the 1980s [[4604543]]. Or it could have been to check that lorries heading for the sewage works across the canal were not too heavy for the swing bridge in the background of the photo. by Stephen Craven – 25 October 2015](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/72/19/4721999_d0ae54f0_120x120.jpg)