Bridge 57 Over The Shropshire Union Canal (Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal - Main Line) - Woodseaves, UK
Posted by: dtrebilc
N 52° 52.352 W 002° 27.034
30U E 536981 N 5858231
This single arch stone bridge over the Shropshire Union Canal (Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal - Main Line) is an accommodation bridge for a nearby farm.
Waymark Code: WMYVQH
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/29/2018
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The bridge is a Historic England Grade II Listed Building.
"Canal bridge. Circa 1830. Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton, engineers. Dressed red sandstone with rock-faced and tooled ashlar dressings. Very tall elliptical arch with voussoirs, and raised impost blocks and keystone. Flat string course, and parapet with square end piers and rounded coping. Slightly battered and curved abutments. The bridge spans the canal within a deep cutting. This stretch of the canal was built as part of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal (Act passed 1826, opened 1835), which was absorbed by the Ellesmere and Chester Canal in 1845 and eventually became part of the Shrop- shire Union in 1846. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands, pp. 183-9. Thomas Pellow and Paul Bowen, The Shroppie, A Portrait of the Shropshire Union Canal, (1985)."
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