Description

WHIXALL C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION
SJ 53 NW CANAL

2/204 Roundthorn Bridge
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- II
Canal roving bridge. Circa 1800 on William Jessop's and Thomas Telford's
Ellesmere Canal. Red brick with some engineering brick patching
and coped stone parapet; uncoursed rubble to ramped approach on both
sides of towpath. Single elliptical arch with keybricks, string
course and parapet. The section of the former Ellesmere Canal between
Welsh Frankton and Tilstock Park, on which Roundthorn Bridge is situated,
was built between 1797 and 1804. The Ellesmere Canal Company amalgamated
with the Chester Canal Company in 1813 and became part of the Shropshire
Union in 1846. Charles Hadfield, Canals of the West Midlands (3rd
edn. 1985) pp.177, 331.

Listing NGR: SJ5006935705

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26554955

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