Description

DAWLEY HAMLETS LIGHTMOOR ROAD
SJ 60 NE
Former canal bridge
31/10002
about 130 metres south
of Methodist Chapel
II
Canal bridge. Circa 1790 to early C19. Stretcher bond red brick
round arch on dressed sandstone plinth forming a barrel vaulted
tunnel, about 5 metres long, through bank of spoil. Stone rubble
and slag abutments at either end.
The bridge now has a footpath above, but may have originally
carried a colliery plateway over the line of the Shropshire Union
Canal (completed in circa 1790). The 1882 OS map indicates that
the canal was replaced by a small mineral line. The bridge
probably connected Dawley Parva Colliery to Lightmoor Iron, Brick
and Tile Works.
Sources: Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust; 1840 Tithe Map and 1882
OS Map.

Listing NGR: SJ6827405850

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549693

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Recommended Books

• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)