Strines Stone Aqueduct Over The Peak Forest Canal - Strines, UK
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dtrebilc
N 53° 22.292 W 002° 02.842
30U E 563380 N 5914024
This single arch stone aqueduct carries the Peak Forest Canal over an unnamed track.
Waymark Code: WMR25M
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/01/2016
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The Peak Forest Canal
The 18th Century had seen the development of the canal network in the UK to carry heavy goods, and led to towns such as Manchester become the first large industrial towns.
There was a demand for limestone and grit stone from the nearby quarries to be transported to Manchester and beyond and so the Peak Forest Canal was built with a connection to the Ashton Canal at Ashton-Under-Lyne.
The canal has a series of 16 locks to lift the canal a height of 209 feet from Ashton-Under-Lyne to Buxworth.
There is also a small half mile long side arm of the canal from Bridgemeount to Whaley Bridge. Even before the canal, there had been coal mines at Whaley Bridge and the canal became a useful way to move the coal and other goods.
The Aqueduct
This aqueduct is known as Strines Aqueduct and has a single arch that straddles an unnamed cobbled track.
It is a Historic England Grade II Listed Building with the following text "Aqueduct. Between 1794 and 1801 with alterations in C19. Benjamin Outram and Thomas Brown Engineers. Dressed stone. Skew segmental arch with rock-faced voussoirs. Concave retaining walls with parapet to one side only, 2 rock-faced bands, rounded copings and rock-faced square terminating piers.
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