Bridge 50, Caldon Canal - Consall Forge, Staffordshire.
N 53° 02.373 W 002° 00.114
30U E 566920 N 5877135
Bridge No 50 is located on the Caldon Canal at Consall Forge near the Black Lion pub.
Waymark Code: WMVWHM
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/04/2017
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Bridge No 50 is an accommodation bridge, located on the Caldon Canal at Consall Forge near the Black Lion pub.
The bridge is Grade II listed. The description given by British Listed Buildings is as follows;
'Canal accommodation bridge. Circa 1779. Coursed dressed and squared
stone; labelled elliptical arch; flat-top parapet set horizontally
over arch and ramped down at both sides and in a concave sweep to north.
The Caldon Canal was built to carry limestone from Caldon Low. Originally
surveyed by James Brindley, succeeded by Henshaw and completed by John
Rennie circa 1801.' (
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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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