Stone Bridge 69 Over The Macclesfield Canal - Congleton, UK
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dtrebilc
N 53° 10.210 W 002° 11.039
30U E 554546 N 5891511
This single arch bridge known as Wallworths Bridge was erected when the canal was built in 1827 and is an accommodation bridge for a nearby farm.
Waymark Code: WMQKEV
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/27/2016
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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 Bridge
This bridge is a Historic England Grade II Listed Building
link with the following text "Accomodation bridge. c1827. William Crosley engineer. Coursed sandstone blocks with ashlar dressings. Horseshoe arch/eliptical head with voussoirs: the keystone is stressed: the band below parapet is chamfered, battered walls terminate in squared piers and the coping to the parapet is unchamfered. NB One in a series of fine bridges (and mileposts) that survive on the Macclesfield Canal."