Red Acre Aqueduct - Higher Poynton, UK
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dtrebilc
N 53° 20.134 W 002° 04.933
30U E 561113 N 5909992
This aqueduct carries The Macclesfield Canal over Shrigley Road.
Waymark Code: WM114TN
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/16/2019
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The Macclesfield Canal
The Macclesfield Canal was one of the last narrow canals to be built, indeed, it was very nearly built as a railway! A variety of ideas were proposed and the present canal was approved by Act of Parliament in April 1826. The route of the canal was surveyed by Thomas Telford and construction was engineered by William Crosley. The completed canal was opened on 9th November 1831 at a cost of £320,000.
The route takes the canal from Marple Junction with the Peak Forest Canal in the north 26¼ miles to the stop lock at Hall Green near Kidsgrove passing along the side of the most westerly Pennine hills through High Lane, Higher Poynton, Bollington, Macclesfield and Congleton, all in Cheshire, and Kidsgrove in Staffordshire in the south. Nowadays we normally regard the last 1½ miles to Harding's Wood Junction with the Trent & Mersey Canal as a part of the Macclesfield Canal although it was built as a branch of the T&MC.
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The Aqueduct
This aqueduct is a Historic England Grade II Listed Building
link with the following text "Canal aqueduct: c1830 by William Crosley for the Macclesfield Canal Company. Squared sandstone rubble with sandstone dressings. Plain segmental arch with revetment walls, curving from each corner to run parallel to the road. Flat chamfered coping at towpath level and along wall tops. Stone steps from road to towpath alongside the north-east revetment wall. "