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SJ 83 NE
5/10009

BARLSTON
TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL (West side)
Canal Milepost at SJ 8860 3883

II

Canal milepost. Dated "R & D Stone 1819" on shaft. Cast iron painted black and white. Circular post with moulded head and embossed letters on two convex tablets below: "Shardlow 51 miles" "Preston Brook 41 miles". Probably cast in the foundry of Rangeley and Dixon in Lichfield Street, Stone. The Trent and Mersey Canal was built between 1766 and 1777 by James Brindley and Hugh Henshall.

Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands (1966)

Jean Lindsay, The Trent and Mersey Canal (1979)

Listing NGR: SJ8861938815

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26303807

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