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Stone-built Snake Bridge on the Macclesfield Canal in England.

The ‘Snake Bridge’ or 'Roving Bridge' is a bridge over a canal constructed to allow a horse towing a boat to cross the canal when the towpath changes sides, without having to be unhitched from the boat.

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