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Barnsley Canal - Haw Park Bridge

Haw Park Bridge and Stoneheaps Plantation
(Sike Lane & Stoneheaps Plantation to Clay Royd Bridge).

Haw Park Bridge is about 5.5 km from the River Calder. It carries Sike Lane over the canal. After leaving the Stoneheaps Cutting, the canal runs through pleasant farmland scenery towards Haw Park Woods. A very attractive and usually tranquil part of the Trans Pennine Trail. In the mid-20th century, this bridge was also apparently known locally as "Jones' Bridge".

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Haw Park Bridge, an 'accommodation bridge' carrying Sike Lane across the Stoneheaps Cutting. The building is part of Lakeview within the boundary wall of Walton Park.
© John S. Sargent.
Click to enlargeHaw Park Bridge whilst the canal was still open. Believed to have been photographed in the early 20th century. Courtesy John Goodchild Loan Collection. Click to enlargeHaw Park Bridge, heading southwards from Walton Hall Bridge. this is the beginning of the Stoneheaps Cutting. Sike Lane crosses the bridge and leads to Haw Park Woods. Photographed in March 2000. © John S. Sargent.
Click to enlargeThe towpath in the Stoneheaps Cutting. The cutting was made necessary because Thomas Waterton (father of the Squire) would not allow the canal to pass through Walton Park. This was an expensive part of the canal. Photographed on 25th July 2009. © John S. Sargent. Click to enlargeView northwards at Haw Park Bridge. The footpath, part of the Trans Pennine Trail, continues to Shay Lane at Walton Locks and Soap House Yard. © John S. Sargent 15th March 2010.
Click to enlargeView southwards at Haw Park Bridge. The footpath, part of the Trans Pennine Trail, continues along the old tow path towards Cold Hiendley through Haw Park Woods. © John S. Sargent 15th March 2010. Click to enlargeHaw Park Bridge, looking northwards in the Stoneheaps Cutting.
© John S. Sargent 2nd March 2009.
Click to enlargeStoneheaps Cutting looking southwards. Photographed 2nd March 2009. © John S. Sargent. Click to enlargeThe towpath south of Stoneheaps Cutting looking southwards. Photographed 15th May 2004. © John S. Sargent.
Click to enlargeView to the south across farmland and open countryside from the towpath between Haw Park and Clay Royd Bridges.
© John S. Sargent 15th May 2004. 		Click to enlargeView northwards in Stoneheaps Cutting towards Haw Park Bridge.
© John S. Sargent 25th July 2009.
Click to enlargeSike Lane at Haw Park Bridge, Stoneheaps, view towards its junction with Highfield Lane. Sike Lane is the route for horses on this section of the Trans Pennine Trail (Haw Park Woods - Shay Lane, Walton).
© John S. Sargent 2010.

This bridge is listed on Images of England. An excellent visual record of English National Monuments.

Details: IoE Number: 342339
Location: BARNSLEY CANAL HAW PARK BRIDGE, WALTON, WAKEFIELD, WEST YORKSHIRE
Date listed: 27 August 1986. Grade II
Accommodation bridge. Late C18. Hammer-dressed stone, larger dressed stone to intrados* of arch. Single-span bridge set in deep cutting has tall elliptical arch. Band, coped parapet terminates in square piers at right angles. See Blue Bridge.

* Intrados: the inner curve or surface of an arch or vault.

This area is covered by
Ordnance Survey Explorer Map, Sheet 278.
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