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Latitude: 53.2288 / 53°13'43"N
Longitude: -2.5407 / 2°32'26"W
OS Eastings: 364004
OS Northings: 370332
OS Grid: SJ640703
Mapcode National: GBR 7S.0MC0
Mapcode Global: WH99J.Y3BK
Plus Code: 9C5V6FH5+GP
Entry Name: Sluice, Channel and Sluice a Swing-Bridges at Vale Royal Locks
Listing Date: 12 March 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1160896
English Heritage Legacy ID: 57406
ID on this website: 101160896
Location: Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CW8
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Civil Parish: Whitegate and Marton
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Davenham St Wilfrid
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Sluice
WINSFORD FORMER U.D. WEAVER NAVIGATION
SJ 67 SW
6402 7033
1/43 Sluice, channel and
sluice a swing-bridges
at Vale Royal Locks.
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GV II
Sluice. Built c1860 as a lock and converted to a sluice channel
c1890. Red sandstone ashlar walls to channel with wooden sluice gate
suspended from bridge of rusticated red sandstone with limestone
ashlar dressings. Wood and iron swing-bridge. Rectangular channel
with sluice gate and bridge at south end and swing bridge to south of
centre. Red sandstone walls to channel and rusticated sandstone piers
to bridge which has semi-circular piers to either side of front and
rear and flights of steps to either side. Central cast iron
round-arched support to bridge with open circles to spandrels and a
wooden walkway and tubular iron handrail. The piers have limestone
springers to the iron support and ashlar dressings to lower level and
top of bridge parapet. The sluice channel was the small lock until
the alterations of c1890 when it was converted and the sluice and
sluice bridge were built.
Listing NGR: SJ6400470332
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