Description

LEEDS

SE2635 COMMERCIAL ROAD, Kirkstall
714-1/22/925 (South side (off))
23/03/93 Ford and weir on River Aire at NGR
2632 3507
(Formerly Listed as:
COMMERCIAL ROAD, Kirkstall
(South side)
Ford and Weir on River Aire)

II

Weir surmounted by ford with revetment walls crossing River
Aire. Early C19. Gritstone. Approx 30m long and 2m wide.
Massive stone blocks set on edge form weir and roadway with
edge-tooled stone revetment walls approx 3m long flanking
approach roads on each river bank.
Part of the extensive river engineering works at the time of
the building of Burley Mills (qv) and possibly St Anne's which
was built by 1826. Suitable for vehicular traffic, the ford
gave access to the island formed between the mill race and
river with a bridge over the channel at St Anne's Mills,
demolished.

Listing NGR: SE2631835072

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26655963

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