Bridge 7 Leek Branch of the Caldon Canal - Longsdon, Staffordshire.
N 53° 04.805 W 002° 03.207
30U E 563404 N 5881597
This accommodation bridge is a located on the Leek Branch of the Caldon Canal, Longsdon.
Waymark Code: WMVE7H
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/07/2017
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This bridge is an accommodation bridge, built of stone and is the seventh bridge from the Hazelhurst Junction on the Leek Branch of the Caldon Canal.
The bridge is a Grade II Listed Building in Longsdon, Staffordshire. Source: (
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'Accommodation bridge. Early C19. Coursed squared and dressed sandstone, ashlar for string and coping. Elliptical arch; string at deck level. Slightly cambered parapets with stonework terminating in squared piers. Chamfered half round stone copings on top.'
The canal divides at the junction with the main line Caldon Canal descending through three locks in an easterly direction toward Cheddleton and on to Frogall, while the Leek Branch continues along the contour to cross the main line on the single-arched Hazelhurst Aqueduct.
The Leek Branch was opened in 1802 and was built both to extend navigation to the town of Leek and to improve water supplies to the main line of the Trent & Mersey Canal, the Caldon Canal being owned by the Trent & Mersey Canal Company.
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