Description

LONGDON UPON TERN Longdon Aqueduct (Aqueduct
1. on the Shrewsbury Canal)
5362 (Formerly listed 'The Aqueduct
of the Shrewsbury canal')

SJ 61NW 22/445 30.3.71

I

2.
Built in 1795 and designed by Thomas Telford. Although said to be the first cast
iron aqueduct to be built, the one at Holmes on the Derby Canal was completed one
month before Telford's.
Part of the Shropshire Union Canal, it carries the Shrewsbury Branch over the
River Tern. It is an iron trough, square in section, supported on iron uprights with
diagonal bracing. Along the south side of the trough is a tow path with plain iron
railings. Sandstone and brick abutments at each end with round arches through, the
east abutment has corner buttresses. The abutments appear to be the remains of the
former aqueduct which was destroyed in floods early in 1795. Scheduled A.M.

Listing NGR: SJ6175515640

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Longdon-Upon-Tern aqueduct at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17527895

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)