Description

LANCASTER

SD4761SE ALDCLIFFE ROAD
1685-1/8/1 (East side (off))
30/11/70 Basin Bridge (No.98)
(Formerly Listed as:
CANAL BRIDGES
Basin Bridge)

GV II

Roving bridge. c1797. Designed by John Rennie (engineer). For
the Lancaster Canal Company. Coursed squared sandstone.
Concave on plan, with slightly battered abutments.
Semi-elliptical arch with triple keystone, a band above, and
parapets with rounded coping. The western parapet has been
raised, and its central section stepped up. The north corner
of the east side of the arch still retains a cast-iron rubbing
strip to protect the masonry from erosion by tow-ropes.
HISTORY: built to carry the towpath from the western to the
eastern bank of the canal so as to avoid the coal wharves
approx 100m to the east. Now the only unaltered roving bridge
over the main Preston-Tewitfield section of the Lancaster
Canal.

Listing NGR: SD4750661044

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489564

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