Stone Bridge 28 Over The Macclesfield Canal – Bollington, UK
Posted by: dtrebilc
N 53° 17.403 W 002° 06.351
30U E 559602 N 5904910
This bridge is also known as Greens Bridge and was erected when the canal was built in 1830.
Waymark Code: WMQFNY
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/22/2016
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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 an English Heritage Grade II Listed Building
link with the following text "Canal bridge: c1830 by William Crosley for the Macclesfield Canal Company . Coursed squared buff sandstone rubble. Horseshoe elliptical arch with chamfered coping at road level, plain parapet with rounded coping. Bridge ends in square pilasters and has a flight of stone steps from the towpath at the north-west corner."