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Latitude: 53.7025 / 53°42'8"N
Longitude: -1.4625 / 1°27'45"W
OS Eastings: 435580
OS Northings: 423028
OS Grid: SE355230
Mapcode National: GBR LT7M.5H
Mapcode Global: WHDC4.H6SF
Plus Code: 9C5WPG2P+XX
Entry Name: Stanley Ferry Aqueduct
Listing Date: 9 October 1987
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1261690
English Heritage Legacy ID: 436888
Also known as: Stanley Ferry
ID on this website: 101261690
Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF3
County: Wakefield
Civil Parish: Normanton
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Altofts St Mary Magdalene
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Aqueduct Through arch bridge
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NORMANTON,
BIRKWOOD ROAD (south side, off),
Stanley Ferry Aqueduct (that part in Normanton CP)
I
Aqueduct carrying Calder Cut of Aire and Calder Navigation over River Calder.
Built 1837-39; designed in 1834 by George Leather jun. of George Leather and
Son, of Leeds. Cast iron with stone abutments. Arched suspension
construction, with trough designed in Classical style. Two iron girder areas
of 155 ft span, with a horizontal tie at the apex, and steel suspension rods
to the trough. The trough, 160 ft. long and 24 ft. wide, has on each outer
side a continuous colonnade of fluted Doric colonnettes with entablature
including triglyphs with guttae and mutules, the lower ends of the arched
supporting girders passing through at each end without interrupting the
colonnade. The stone abutment on each side is disguised by a pedimented
portico in matching style. The trough has been altered by removal of the
towpaths to widen the passage, but the iron stick railings have been replaced
in replica. The item is believed to be the first iron suspension aqueduct in
the world.
Listing NGR: SE3558023028
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