Bridge 55, Caldon Canal - Froghall Wharf, Froghall, Staffordshire.
N 53° 01.589 W 001° 57.718
30U E 569619 N 5875720
Bridge No 55 is located on the Caldon Canal at Froghall Wharf.
Waymark Code: WMVWHF
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/04/2017
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Bridge No 55, is a road bridge, located on the Caldon Canal at Froghall Wharf.
The bridge is Grade II listed. The description given by British Listed Buildings is as follows;
'Canal road bridge. Circa 1783. Coursed dressed and squared stone.
Virtually round arch, string at carriageway level and parapet with
rounded coping both inclined up slope to north; piers at ends. The
last section of the Caldon Canal was opened circa 1783. The canal
was built to carry limestone from Caldon Low, first surveyed by
James Brindley, succeeded by Henshaw and John Rennie.' (
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The Caldon Branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal was built between Etruria and Froghall in 1776 at a cost of £23,560 and opened in 1779. It was built specifically to carry limestone from the quarries at Cauldon Low, near Froghall to Stoke-on-Trent. (
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