The body found in a canal in Marple was that of a 61 year-old local man, it has been confirmed.. Emergency services were called to the Peak Forest canal at around 4:30pm last night after a passer ...

The Peak Forest Canal is a narrow artificial waterway beginning in Ashton-under-Lyne and flowing 14.8 miles to Whaley Bridge and Buxworth. Whaley Bridge dam news: ...

Police are investigating after a man’s body has was found in a canal this morning.. The body was discovered in the water at Peak Forest Canal, in Marple, Stockport, shortly before 9am. ‌ ...

Peak District town named one of best places to live but average house price is £496,000 ... Perched along the Peak Forest Canal it's popular with walkers and day-trippers, many enticed by the ...

Man's body found in Peak Forest Canal in Marple One resident, who declined to be named, said: “It’s a shock. The first I realised something was wrong was when I saw the police at about 9am.” ...

By 1980, like the Bugsworth Basin on the Peak Forest Canal, a lot of the network lay derelict. The entire canal system was built to suit horses, which pulled the boats attached by rope, with the ...

The edge of a canal tow path in Whaley Bridge is in urgent need of repair after the recent ‘deep freeze’ caused the edge to start collapsing.

The waterway connects Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Peak Forest Canal and Rochdale Canal. Work has started to improve a Greater Manchester canal towpath as part of a £20m scheme to encourage cycling.

The Peak Forest and Macclesfield canals are supplied with water from Toddbrook, ... the Canal and River Trust says it introduced restricted use of the locks at the start of April.