Description

CHESWARDINE C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
SJ 72 NW
8/13 Bridge No 50
- (Soudley Bridge)

- II

Canal bridge. Circa 1830. Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton, engineers.
Dressed red sandstone with tooled ashlar dressings. Elliptical arch with
voussoirs and flush keystone. Decidedly humped-back shape with flat string
course and parapet with square end piers and rounded coping. Slightly
battered and curved abutments. Cast-iron corner posts on towpath side with
grooves caused by rope-haulage. This stretch of canal was built as 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. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands,
pp. 183-9, Thomas Pellow and Paul Bowen, The Shroppie. A portrait of the Shropshire
Union Canal.

Listing NGR: SJ7237227494

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26306998

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5