Considered to have been the Brookes family’s ‘main’ bridge over the canal into Halton village following the canal’s construction, this bridge would have led all the way to the southern gatehouse lodge of Norton Priory, a listed property now known as 120 Main street in Halton village. After the Brookes family left Runcorn for less industrialised pastures in Worcestershire in the early 1920’s, the bridge was merely an access to a derelict estate and there would have been very little use of the bridge other than to reach the banks of the river Mersey for quite some time. Eventually Norton Priory school was built on the new town development of castlefields, and the bridge opened again during that time for single-file traffic to reach the tennis courts and sports fields which were built north of the canal, away from the school itself which once sat on what is now known as Phoenix park. Nowadays Greens bridge is only open to pedestrians but provides direct access from the park to Norton Priory museum and manor park business estate, linking Castlefields to local heritage and employment – therefore making it one of the most important foot bridges on the entire route. GPS Coordinates: 53.338698, -2.680807