Description

LS28 LEEDS AND SE23NW PUDSEY LIVERPOOL CANAL, Calverley 2/135 Lodge Bridge (formerly 25.1.78 listed as Lodge Bridge over Leeds and Liverpool Canal)

- II

Canal swing bridge. Late C18. By James Brindley and Richard Whitworth (engineers). Large dressed stone blocks to retaining wall which rises and narrows on north bank and has quadrant recess on south bank for bridge to swing into. Chain set in stone to hold bridge on south side. Oak post with contemporary iron latch (to hold bridge when in use) set inside low hammer-dressed stone wall which rises to middle where it has been broken through. Iron bridge (much renewed) cantilevered on south bank.

The Act for the Leeds and Liverpool Canal was passed in 1770.

Listing NGR: SE2133037423

External Links

• Wikidata Q26428492

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)