At Marple, just after the junction, you now reach a famous flight of locks called the Marple Flight. There are 16 of them in all They are in close proximity to one another require a great deal of effort and hard work on your part.....They drop the Peak Forest Canal down 215 feet towards Manchester. They are in a superb setting with hills and mountains, woodland and the River Goyt far below you. You should be aware that there are no safe moorings within the flight of locks, and that you should leave plenty of time to get to either the bottom of the flight - or of course, the top of the flight - before darkness falls!!!
When you finally reach the bottom of the Marple flight you will see the magnificent Marple Aqueduct, a huge arched structure which carries the canal 100' over the valley of the Goyt. It was designed by a man called Ben Outram, and is of architectural interest in that he used circular pierced "shoulders" above the arches (as an engineering feature, to lessen the load which had to be borne on the stone arches) and different coloured stones to highlight the architectural design of the parapets and ledges.
Once travelled over the Marple Aqueduct you reach a short tunnel at Hyde Bank Tunnel,
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