Horseboating Society - Castlefield to Audenshaw

9th August 2009

For the final leg of their return journey from Audenshaw to Sowerby Bridge, I joined the Horseboating Society for the journey from Castlefield to Audenshaw, including the notorious Rochdale Nine through Manchester City Centre, possibly the hardest stretch of canal in the country to tackle with a horse-drawn narrowboat, and the 18 locks of the Ashton Canal.

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