Other sights in Greater ManchesterGreater Manchester, England

The world's first swing aqueduct — a 235-foot iron trough that pivots aside, water and all, to let ships pass on the Manchester Ship Canal.

Tall Victorian monument to Sir Robert Peel crowning Holcombe Hill above Ramsbottom, with wide Pennine views.

The Leeds & Liverpool waterfront Orwell made shorthand for hard times, its old warehouses now the heart of a canalside quarter.

Flight of sixteen canal locks and a towering stone aqueduct where the Peak Forest Canal climbs out of the Goyt valley.

Canal-side Uppermill museum tracing the woollen trade and Roman past of the Saddleworth villages.