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Latitude: 54.1904 / 54°11'25"N
Longitude: -3.0543 / 3°3'15"W
OS Eastings: 331306
OS Northings: 477697
OS Grid: SD313776
Mapcode National: GBR 7M3Z.KM
Mapcode Global: WH83B.1XWX
Plus Code: 9C6R5WRW+57
Entry Name: Canal Basin and Pier on Seaward End of Ulverston Canal, Canal Foot
Listing Date: 20 June 1972
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1374971
English Heritage Legacy ID: 459889
ID on this website: 101374971
Location: Canal Foot, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, LA12
County: Cumbria
District: South Lakeland
Civil Parish: Ulverston
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Ulverston St Mary with Holy Trinity
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
Tagged with: Canal basin
ULVERSTON
SD37NW
626-1/2/4
20/06/72
CANAL FOOT
Canal basin and pier on seaward end
of Ulverston Canal
GV
II
Pier, lock, and perimeter walls of canal basin. Canal begun
1793 and opened 1796. Engineer John Rennie.
The pier is built of large rock-faced limestone blocks, and
projects eastwards into the Ulverston Channel on the south
side of the lock entrance. Its seaward end is rounded and its
southern wall is battered. Set into it are 4 cast-iron
bollards. The lock chamber walls are mostly of sandstone
blocks with brick repair. The eastern lock gates have been
replaced by concrete, but the rotting remains of the western
gates survive. The chamber is now spanned by a C20 girder
footbridge. To the west is the Lower Basin, which is partly
surrounded by rubble walls with brick repairs.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Ulverston Canal was a ship canal
one-and-a-half miles long, with its terminus at Canal Head
close to the town. In 1862 it was bought by the Furness
Railway. It was closed to traffic in 1916 and in 1949 the lock
gates were sealed with concrete.
Listing NGR: SD3130677697
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