Hall Green Branch

Work began on construction in 1827, and on 20 March 1829 the engineer Thomas Telford wrote to the Trent and Mersey Company, following an inspection he had made of Knypersley Reservoir, Harecastle Tunnel and the Hall Green Branch.

While generally pleased with the standard of the work on the branch, he was not happy with the use of "dense blue clunch", which had been laid on top of the puddle clay.

[1] Part of the route was affected by water ingress, and the resident engineer suggested that the bed should be lined with stone slabs before the puddle clay was applied.

[3] The Macclesfield Canal seem to have treated it as such almost from the start, since their annual meeting held on 18 July 1833 reported that the company had built six wharves, and was in the process of building a seventh at Bosley.

[5] The second chamber fell into disuse when the weir level on the top pound of the Trent and Mersey Canal was permanently lowered after nationalisation to improve the clearance in Harecastle Tunnel.