Description

SE32SE WARMFIELD-CUM-HEATH RIVER CALDER

1/108 Kirkthorpe Weir
and sluice gates

II

Weir and sluice gates across the River Calder. Probably second quarter C19,
sluice gates dated 1827. Ashlar and cast-iron. Segmental curved weir has
8 steps with, to west and east, curved retaining walls of giant ashlar blocks.
At east end 3 sluices divided by 6 giant stepped buttresses with pointed-arched
cutwaters to the south. Two original sluice gates with circular winding gear
and large cog wheel the plates with lettering in relief reading

"HEWES & WREN
MANCHESTER
1827"

to each face. A large and impressive feat of engineering, the sluices in
working order.

Partly in the parish of Stanley.

Listing NGR: SE3578421247

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496487

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Care and Repair
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover