Bridge 58 Over The Shropshire Union Canal (Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal - Main Line) - Woodseaves, UK
Posted by: dtrebilc
N 52° 52.834 W 002° 27.416
30U E 536545 N 5859122
This single arch stone bridge carries Hollins Lane over the Shropshire Union Canal (Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal - Main Line) and is known as Hollings Bridge.
Waymark Code: WMYVD0
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/27/2018
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The bridge is a Historic England Grade II Listed Building.
"Canal bridge. C.1830. Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton, engineers. Rough-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings; parapet re-built in late e C20 red brick. Narrow elliptical arch with voussoirs and imposts, flat string course; revetment walls to north and south with circular cast iron tie plates. This stretch of canal formerly formed part of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal (Act passed 1826, opened 1835), which was absorbed by the Ellesmere and Chester Canal in 1845 and eventually became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846. V.C.H., II (1967), p.295; Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands, (1966), Pp.183-9."
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The bridge is in the Woodseaves deep cutting and the supports for the bridge are very high.