DescriptionBridge No 86 and Hack Green Top Lock, Cheshire - geograph.org.uk - 1700884.jpg
English: Bridge No 86 and Hack Green Top Lock, Cheshire. This shows Hack Green Bridge and the bottom gates of Lock No 1, which is almost full; hence the water leaking around the edges.
There are two locks on the Shropshire Union Canal at Hack Green, (inaccurately marked on the map on this page) changing the water level by twelve feet (about 3.7 metres). When Thomas Telford engineered the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal (as it was then) he tried to avoid locks as much as possible. He also took the expensive option of taking the straight line wherever he could by building long embankments and cuttings. By these two ploys the company could keep traffic moving with fewer delays and cover the distance in fewer days - important in the 1830s because the railways were beginning to take business away.
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