Description

WERRINGTON
SX 39 SW
5/275 Incline plane, bridge and wheel
- pit to east of Plane Cottage

GV II

Incline plane, incorporating bridge over road and wheelpit. Circa 18209. Incline
plane of stone rubble, the surface of which is now partly grassed with stone rubble
bridge over road below and wheelpit constructed of stone rubble at the upper end.
The plane was built instead of a lock for the Bude Canal (opened 1823). The tub
boats which were used on the canal were fitted with iron wheels. When they arrived
at the incline plane they were floated out of the water and put onto one of the two
sets of rails which enabled the boats to ascend and descend the plane at the same
time. The narrow stepped path alongside the plane was use by the horses and
pedestrians.
The integral bridge on the lower end carries the incline plane over the road which
runs roughly parallel to the canal for much of its course through Werrington parish.
The bridge has a dressed stone segmental arch and stone rubble parapets.
The plane was worked by a continuous chain over a winding drum, the boats being
hooked to the big chain by a smaller 10 link chain. The water wheel which stood in
the water pit at the top of the plane provided the necessary power. The wheel has
been removed, but the entrance to the pit remains unaltered.
Rendell. J. The Story of the Bude Canal, 1987.

Listing NGR: SX3380790489

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26435635

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)