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Latitude: 52.5059 / 52°30'21"N
Longitude: -1.9974 / 1°59'50"W
OS Eastings: 400275
OS Northings: 289777
OS Grid: SP002897
Mapcode National: GBR 29Z.WL
Mapcode Global: VH9YV.B8FT
Plus Code: 9C4WG243+93
Entry Name: Steward Aqueduct (Approximately 400 Metres West of Spon Lane South) Birmingham Canal Wolverhampton Level
Listing Date: 30 March 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1077161
English Heritage Legacy ID: 219242
ID on this website: 101077161
Location: West Smethwick, Sandwell, West Midlands, B66
County: Sandwell
Electoral Ward/Division: St Pauls
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Smethwick
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Midlands
Church of England Parish: Smethwick The Resurrection
Church of England Diocese: Birmingham
Tagged with: Aqueduct
SANDWELL MB BIRMINGHAM CANAL
SP 08 NW
Wolverhampton Level, Smethwick
9/38 Steward Aqueduct (approx
30.3.87 400m west of Spon Lane South)
GV II
Aqueduct. Built in 1828 by Thomas Telford to carry the Old Main Line
(Wolverhampton Level), opened in 1769 and re-aligned in 1790, over his
New Main Line, on the Birmingham Level. Brick in English bond with sand-
stone dressings. Two elliptical skew arches with chamfered voussoirs.
Moulded string course dies into rusticated quoins of abutments. Ashlar
capping course carries cast-iron railings with intersecting arched heads.
Buttresses added to central cutwaters at uncertain date.
Listing NGR: SP0027589777
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