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Worcester and Birmingham Canal, Lock Number 58 Including Side Pond Retaining Wall and Sluice Immediately South

A Grade II Listed Building in Tutnall and Cobley, Worcestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.3215 / 52°19'17"N

Longitude: -2.0103 / 2°0'37"W

OS Eastings: 399392

OS Northings: 269264

OS Grid: SO993692

Mapcode National: GBR 2G6.GKS

Mapcode Global: VH9ZM.3XK7

Plus Code: 9C4V8XCQ+HV

Entry Name: Worcester and Birmingham Canal, Lock Number 58 Including Side Pond Retaining Wall and Sluice Immediately South

Listing Date: 1 December 1992

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1078238

English Heritage Legacy ID: 355192

ID on this website: 101078238

Location: Tardebigge, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, B60

County: Worcestershire

District: Bromsgrove

Civil Parish: Tutnall and Cobley

Traditional County: Worcestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire

Church of England Parish: Tardebigge

Church of England Diocese: Worcester

Tagged with: Lock

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Description


The following buildings shall be added:

SO 96 NE TUTNALL AND COBLEY WORCESTER AND
BIRMINGHAM CANAL
TARDEBIGGE

1655-/9/10002 Lock No. 58 including
side-pond retaining
wall and sluice
immediately south

GV II


Canal lock, side-pond and sluice. Circa 1812-13 with later C19
and C20 repairs. English bond blue and red brick with some
sandstone coping and dressed sandstone wall to side-pond. Narrow
lock, about 14 feet deep with splayed wing walls at either end.
The north wall of the lower west end has integral flight of
steps. Rebuilt wooden gates with mechanical gate-paddle machinery
intact. Remains of side-pond on south side with dressed sandstone
retaining wall and remains of sluice-gate superstructure. NOTE:
The Worcester and Birmingham Canal was authorised in 1791. With
Thomas Cartwright as the engineer work begun at the Birmingham
end in 1795 and it was completed to Tardebigge in 1807. In 1809
Cartwright was replaced by John Woodhouse who built a lift
instead of the proposed flight of docks. Trials for the lifts
started in 1810, but it was abandoned in favour of the locks on
Rennie's advice. In 1812 construction commenced on the Tardebigge
flight and it was completed in 1813. Lock 58 is the top lock of
the flight and the deepest (14ft against 7ft for other locks).
It is on the site of the lift which was dismantled in 1814 but
used in the construction of the Tardebigge flight of locks.
SOURCES: Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands, pp
135-146.


Listing NGR: SO9939269264

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