Stone Bridge 8 Over The Macclesfield Canal – Windlehurst, UK
Posted by: dtrebilc
N 53° 22.431 W 002° 04.160
30U E 561915 N 5914263
This accommodation bridge is also known as Bancroft’s Bridge and was erected when the canal was built in 1831.
Waymark Code: WMNNNT
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/09/2015
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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 an English Heritage Grade II Listed Building
link "Accommodation bridge. Completed by 1831. William Crossley engineer. Dressed stone. Elliptical horseshoe keystone arch. Convex parapet walls with a stone band and rounded copings which are terminated in square piers."