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Marple Locks Number 5 and Adjoining Footbridge on Peak Forest Canal

A Grade II Listed Building in Marple, Stockport

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.4032 / 53°24'11"N

Longitude: -2.0602 / 2°3'36"W

OS Eastings: 396093

OS Northings: 389598

OS Grid: SJ960895

Mapcode National: GBR GY12.RS

Mapcode Global: WHB9Y.BQ5D

Plus Code: 9C5VCW3Q+7W

Entry Name: Marple Locks Number 5 and Adjoining Footbridge on Peak Forest Canal

Listing Date: 11 October 1985

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1242290

English Heritage Legacy ID: 441674

ID on this website: 101242290

Location: Marple Bridge, Stockport, Greater Manchester, SK6

County: Stockport

Electoral Ward/Division: Marple North

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Marple

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester

Church of England Parish: Low Marple St Martin

Church of England Diocese: Chester

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Description


SJ 98 NE MARPLE PEAK FOREST
CANAL

7/133 Marple Locks
No. 5 and
adjoining
- footbridge

G.V. II


Lock and adjoining footbridge. 1803 to 1805. Benjamin Outram
and Thomas Brown Engineers, financed by S. Oldknow and
R. Arkwright and built by James and Fox. Dressed stone and
ashlar. Single upper gate, double lower gate and footbridge
at lower end. 4m. pound-to-pound level to accommodate
steepness of slope. Lock walls in large coursed stone blocks
with rounded verge. The mouth is grooved for stop planks.
The gates have been overhauled and are fully functional. The
footbridge has a segmental rusticated keystone arch, an
ashlar band and parapet walls which have been rebuilt and
which are terminated by a battered square pier at one end
with a small abutting flight of steps, and sweeps down at
the other end to the level of the pound.


Listing NGR: SJ9609389598

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