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while discovering this amazing treasure under the Pennines.” The Standedge Tunnels are four parallel tunnels through the Pennine hills at the Standedge crossing between Marsden in Kirklees ...
Standedge Tunnel runs for 3.5 miles (5.6km) under the Pennines between Marsden in West Yorkshire and Diggle in Lancashire. The Canal & River Trust charity is offering guided canoe trips through ...
Britain's longest and deepest canal tunnel, the 200-year old Standedge Tunnel on the Huddersfied Narrow Canal, is getting its annual health check this week, with engineers painstakingly inspecting ...
running under the Pennines from Marsden to Diggle. To call Standedge Tunnel an impressive feat of engineering would be an understatement. When ‘canal mania’ was raging in the late 18th century ...
In fact the spooky secrets of the iconic Standedge ... tunnel has long had a reputation for being an eerie experience as you travel along the 3.2 miles of Pennine grit and sitting more than 640ft ...
Standedge Tunnel is unlike any other boating passage in the country, passing under miles of Pennine countryside under Standedge Moor. Construction began in 1794, and it’s credited with helping ...
Watersports fans are being given the chance to “paddle under the Pennines” with canoe ... tours by canoe for the first time through Standedge Tunnel, which runs for three and a half miles ...
Standedge Tunnel has been opened to canoeists for the first time in its 200-year history. It runs for 3.5 miles under the Pennines between Marsden in West Yorkshire and Diggle in Lancashire.