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Lock No 65, Trent and Mersey Canal

A Grade II Listed Building in Sandbach, Cheshire East

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Latitude: 53.1297 / 53°7'46"N

Longitude: -2.366 / 2°21'57"W

OS Eastings: 375608

OS Northings: 359234

OS Grid: SJ756592

Mapcode National: GBR 016.W2N

Mapcode Global: WH9B0.MLKK

Plus Code: 9C5V4JHM+VJ

Entry Name: Lock No 65, Trent and Mersey Canal

Listing Date: 3 December 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1330423

English Heritage Legacy ID: 56256

ID on this website: 101330423

Location: Wheelock, Cheshire East, Cheshire, CW11

County: Cheshire East

Civil Parish: Sandbach

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire

Church of England Parish: Wheelock Christ Church

Church of England Diocese: Chester

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Description


SJ 75 NE
5/104

TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL
(Wheelock)
Lock No.65

GV
II
Pair of parallel locks, south lock circa l775 by James Brindley, north lock added 1830 (Consultant Thomas Telford). Blue and red bricks with stone dressing and wooden gates. Both locks have raking abutments on their west ends and there are attractive little cantilever bridges with arched supports, circular struts and central gaps, for tow rope passage, fronting the lower (west) gates. The south west gates were replaced in timber in 1986 and the north west gates, also in timber, in 1980. The upper single gates (east) are thought to have both been replaced in timber in 1980 but only the north east gate is dated. Some replacement of stone lock edging in concrete.

Sources: Profile, Harry Arnold, Trent & Mersey Canal Society.
Cheshire Canals, David E Owen, Cheshire History No.10, Autumn 1982.


Listing NGR: SJ7560859233

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