Description

SJ 64 SE ADDERLEY C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL

2/15 Bridge No. 73 (Adderley
- Pool Bridge)

- II

Canal bridge. Circa 1830. Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton, engineers.
Limewashed red brick with some blue brick dressings. Elliptical arch.
Humped-back shape with chamfered stone string course and parapet with
square end piers and rounded stone coping. Slightly battered and
curved abutments. Cast-iron corner posts on towpath side with grooves
caused by rope haulage. Oval cast-iron number plate to south-east.
This stretch of the canal was built as part of the Birmingham and Liverpool
Junction Canal (Act passed 1826, opened 1835) which was absorbed by
the Ellesmere and Chester Canal in 1845 and eventually became part of
the Shropshire Union in 1846. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West
Midlands, pp. 183-9.

Listing NGR: SJ6656140515

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26471027

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)