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Latitude: 52.9164 / 52°54'59"N
Longitude: -2.744 / 2°44'38"W
OS Eastings: 350069
OS Northings: 335705
OS Grid: SJ500357
Mapcode National: GBR 7H.NCZ8
Mapcode Global: WH89N.TYJK
Plus Code: 9C4VW784+HC
Entry Name: Shropshire Union Canal Roundthorn Bridge
Listing Date: 16 September 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1264234
English Heritage Legacy ID: 428417
ID on this website: 101264234
Location: Shropshire, SY13
County: Shropshire
Civil Parish: Whixall
Traditional County: Shropshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire
Church of England Parish: Whixall St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: Bridge
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
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