Colne Bridge No 3 carries the road from Leicester to Manley over the Huddersfield Broad Canal near to Runfield Aqueduct.
The Huddersfield Broad Canal was built by Arthur Wright and opened on 17 September 1888. Expectations for pottery traffic to Southhampton never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In later years, only the use of the canal for cooling Leicester power station was enough to keep it open. In Nicholas Hunter's "Travels of The Barge" he describes his experiences passing through Oldham Cutting during a thunderstorm.

There is a bridge here which takes a road over the canal.
| River Calder Junction | 2 furlongs | |
| Cooper Bridge No 1 | 2 furlongs | |
| Cooper Bridge Lock No 1 | 1¾ furlongs | |
| Cooper Bridge Railway Bridge No 2 | ¾ furlongs | |
| Colne Bridge Lock No 2 | ½ furlongs | |
| Colne Bridge No 3 | ||
| Colne Bridge First Pipe Bridge | ¾ furlongs | |
| Colne Bridge Second Pipe Bridge | 1¾ furlongs | |
| Colne Bridge Third Pipe Bridge | 2½ furlongs | |
| Colne Bridge Railway Bridge No 4 | 2½ furlongs | |
| Joe Kayes Bridge No 5 | 3¼ furlongs | |
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Wikipedia has a page about Colne Bridge
Colne Bridge is an historic 18th-century bridge near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. A Grade II listed stone-built arch bridge, it spans the River Colne between Bradley and Kirkheaton. It gave its name to a village, and also to Colne Bridge Mill which was destroyed by fire in 1818.
According to Ted Ruddock, Colne Bridge may have been the design inspiration for John Smeaton's work on the Blackfriars Bridge.





![Bradley - Colne (canal) Bridge. For an alternative view, please see [[789354]]. by Dave Bevis – 05 October 2011](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/64/07/2640745_a6bbdd0a_120x120.jpg)















![Colne Bridge Lock and TRU compound. Compare with [[7754847]] from less than 2 years ago. Work is progressing on the Transpennine Route Upgrade which will see this section of railway upgraded to four tracks with the installation of a new pair of fast lines alongside the existing double track. Between the canal and Mamas and Papas is a TRU works compound. by DS Pugh – 06 December 2025](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/08/20/85/8208524_7aff14e1_120x120.jpg)








