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Dowley Gap Aqueduct (Seven Arches)

📍 BingleyWest Yorkshire

Seven-arched 1770s aqueduct carrying the Leeds and Liverpool Canal over the River Aire

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Dowley Gap Aqueduct Aqueduct across the River Aire on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal halfway between Bingley and Saltaire, looking east towards Hirst Wood. — Dowley Gap Aqueduct Aqueduct across the River Aire on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal halfway between Bingley and Saltaire, looking east towards Hirst Wood.Photo: Paul Glazzard · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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Free to walk the towpath and see the aqueduct

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Also known as the Seven Arches, this Grade II listed stone aqueduct has carried the Leeds and Liverpool Canal over the River Aire since the 1770s. It sits on the towpath about a mile west of Saltaire and under two miles from Bingley, so it makes a good stop on a canal walk between the two. Paths drop down beside the river for a view of the arches from below.

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