Arch Bridge 54 On The Macclesfield Canal - North Rode, UK - Stone Bridges on Waymarking.com

The Canal
The Macclesfield Canal is a canal in east Cheshire, England, one of the six that make up the Cheshire Ring.

It was the last narrow canal to be built and was built to serve the mills, mines and quarries of the Marple, Poynton, Bollington, Macclesfield and Congleton areas as well as to provide a link from Manchester to the Potteries and Midlands. It was completed in 1831 and reduced the distance between Manchester and the Midlands by around 25 miles.

The Bridge
This arch bridge carries a road over the canal and is built across the tail of lock number 1.

Bridges are often built across locks because the canal is at its narrowest making the bridge easier and cheaper to build.

It a Historic England Grade II listed building with the following description "Road bridge over canal, 1831, William Crosley engineer. Of reddish-buff ashlar gritstone with horseshoe elliptical arch, battered abutments curved in plan with square end-piers, plain band at road level and stone parapets with plain copings."

Physical Location (city, county, etc.): North Rode, Cheshire Road, Highway, Street, etc.: Bullgate Lane Water or other terrain spanned: The Macclesfield Canal Architect/Builder: William Crosley Construction Date: 1831

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Date Logged Log User Rating   06/21/2019 Poole/Freeman visited it