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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
Tagged with: Lock
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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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