Bridge 131 Over Shropshire Union Canal - Mollington, UK
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N 53° 13.011 W 002° 54.488
30U E 506134 N 5896396
This brick built single span arch bridge carries a small track over the Shropshire Union Canal.
Waymark Code: WMWC2D
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/11/2017
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The Shropshire and Union Canal
The first part of the canal between Ellesmere Port and Chester was started in 1795 and then later extended.
"The canal lies in the counties of Staffordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire in the north-west midlands of England. It links the canal system of the West Midlands, at Wolverhampton, with the River Mersey and Manchester Ship Canal at Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, 66 miles (106 km) distant.
The "SU main line" runs southeast from Ellesmere Port on the River Mersey to the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal at Autherley Junction in Wolverhampton. Other links are to the Llangollen Canal (at Hurleston Junction), the Middlewich Branch (at Barbridge Junction), which itself connects via the Wardle Canal with the Trent and Mersey Canal, and the River Dee (in Chester). With two connections to the Trent and Mersey (via the Middlewich Branch and the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal) the SU is part of an important circular and rural holiday route called the Four Counties Ring.
The SU main line was the last trunk narrow canal route to be built in England. It was not completed until 1835 and was the last major civil engineering accomplishment of Thomas Telford."
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The bridge
The bridge, known as Knolls Bridge, was originally built as an accommodation bridge for nearby farms, but these days the farms have been replaced with a golf course.
The bridge is a Historic England Grade II Listed Building.
"4/28 Knolls Bridge (canal bridge no. 131).
- II
Canal accommodation bridge: 1793 by Thomas Telford for the Ellesmere Canal Company, C20 parapet repairs. Orange brick. Flat horseshoe elliptical arch has plain band above which continues over short curving wing walls which end in raking plain pilasters. Plain parapet with some chamfered stone coping surviving."
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