Bridges Over the Lancaster Canal
This is a list of bridges over the north section of the canal, in order, from south to north, up to the Lune. Please note that this is a work in progress! The first ten no longer exist, as the canal has been truncated. The numbers are therefore somewhat speculative. A map with each extant bridge marked can be found here . Bridges 1-3(?) The map shows the Preston terminus of the canal in 1909. The first three bridges were all for sidings for the railway connections, which indicates the numbers were introduced after the railway was built. Nothing remains of them; the area has been developed for the university and a retail park. Bridge 4(?), Marsh Lane, formerly Bridge Lane This is the remains of the bridge (also visible on the map above). It looks like it was steel, and three spans, the nearest over a railway siding, the middle over the canal, the further was filled in, at least in later life. I would guess this was not the original bridge, which would have been stone like all the rest.