Monk Bridge Over Leeds Liverpool Canal - Leeds, UK
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dtrebilc
N 53° 47.603 W 001° 33.520
30U E 594942 N 5961496
This bridge erected by Leeds Corporation carries Whitehall Road over the Leeds Liverpool Canal.
Waymark Code: WMN5N2
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/30/2014
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The canal is 127.25 miles long and flows from the inland woollen town of Leeds to the coastal sea port of Liverpool, crossing the Pennines along the way. Work on the canal started in 1770 and built in a number of sections and was finally completed in 1816.
The bridges on the canal are numbered from Liverpool. Any bridges built after the canal opened are given a letter suffix so that all original bridges retain their numbers. This bridge number 225G is the seventh bridge between bridges 225 and 226.
The following is an extract from a Discovering Leeds website. "Monk Bridge originally built in 1827 to a design by George Leather. This bridge takes its name from Monk Pits, an area of meadowland north of the river. It carried Whitehall Road, the main route from Halifax to Leeds into the centre of the town. By the 1880s the bridge could no longer cope with the increasing volume of traffic and a new bridge was built by the Leeds Corporation. The bridge has a cast iron structure, with the Leeds coat of arms cast into the ironwork."
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