Description

CHESWARDINE C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
SJ 72 NW
8/10 Bridge no. 48
- (Park Heath 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. Flat string course, and parapet with
square end piers and rounded coping. Slightly battered and curved abutment.
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 Fellow and Paul Bowen, The Shroppie. A portrait of the
Shropshire Union Canal.

Listing NGR: SJ7313927519

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26470404

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Recommended Books

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings