River Medlock

River Medlock on Oxford Road in Manchester

The River Medlock is a river in Greater Manchester in England.

Course

The river rises between Oldham and Saddleworth on the edge of the Pennines and flows after 16 km in the Irwell. During the Medlock is a popular recreation area in its upper reaches, it is often rebuilt upon reaching the city center of Manchester. So he runs under the parking lot of the City of Manchester Stadium, the campus of the University of Manchester in the area of the former University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology ( UMIST ). During his direct encounter with the Bridgewater Canal at Bridgewater Viaduct in Deansgate it is guided by a duiker, where an abundance is set to the channel. This was but suspended because of the very poor water quality of the river. The natural course of the river is higher than the channel later, but he is led into a tunnel under the canal basin of the Bridgewater Canal in the Castlefield area where also diversions for flood have been established. The Medlock finally ends shortly thereafter in the Irwell.

Shipping

The Medlock was in the late 18th century navigable between the Bridgewater Canal and today's India House on Whitworth Street, near the railway station Manchester Piccadilly.

Others

A small area that the north side of the railroad at Manchester Oxford Road Station and on the other is bounded by an arc of the river was known in the 19th century as " Little Ireland ", and was designed by Friedrich Engels in his book the Condition of the Working class in England, described as one of the worst slums in Manchester. Today, a sign in the Cambridge Street near the New Wakefield Street is reminiscent of this slum.

Inflows

• River Tib
• Shooter's Brook
• Newton Brook
• Thornley Brook
• Taunton Brook
• Lumb Clough Brook
• Lord 's Brook
• Sheep Washers Brook