Latitude: 52.9618 / 52°57'42"N
Longitude: -3.0754 / 3°4'31"W
OS Eastings: 327863
OS Northings: 341035
OS Grid: SJ278410
Mapcode National: GBR 72.KHGK
Mapcode Global: WH785.QTQ8
Plus Code: 9C4RXW6F+PV
Entry Name: Cross Street Tunnel and Archways
Listing Date: 1 October 2007
Last Amended: 1 October 2007
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 87549
ID on this website: 300087549
Location: Runs beneath Llangollen Canal, about half way between Froncysyllte and Pentre
County: Wrexham
Community: Chirk (Y Waun)
Community: Chirk
Locality: Cross Street
Traditional County: Denbighshire
Tagged with: Tunnel Road tunnel
Probably late C18. An Act to construct the Ellesmere canal, linking the Rivers Dee, Mersey, and Severn was passed in 1793. The engineer was Thomas Telford under the more experienced Principal Engineer, William Jessop. Construction began on the major aqueducts to North and to South of this section in 1795, and navigation began in 1802 when the section of the canal from Chirk to Froncysyllte opened.
Tunnel with stone portals, probably late C18. Rubble, with voussoirs to elliptical arches on N and S sides of embankment of canal and tow-path. The tunnel lining has been rendered.
Listed as a distinctive feature of canal engineering and for its Group Value with other listed items on the Llangollen Canal.
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