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Canal Aqueduct, Leeds and Liverpool Canal

A Grade II Listed Building in Newburgh, Lancashire

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Latitude: 53.5932 / 53°35'35"N

Longitude: -2.7906 / 2°47'25"W

OS Eastings: 347771

OS Northings: 411024

OS Grid: SD477110

Mapcode National: GBR 8VYW.NP

Mapcode Global: WH86C.3YF8

Plus Code: 9C5VH6V5+7Q

Entry Name: Canal Aqueduct, Leeds and Liverpool Canal

Listing Date: 1 March 1993

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1196624

English Heritage Legacy ID: 386356

ID on this website: 101196624

Location: Newburgh, West Lancashire, WN8

County: Lancashire

District: West Lancashire

Civil Parish: Newburgh

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Newburgh Christ Church

Church of England Diocese: Liverpool

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/07/2019

SD41SE
663-1/3/118

NEWBURGH
DEANS LANE
Canal Aqueduct, Leeds and Liverpool Canal

(Formerly listed as Canal Aqueduct, DEANS LANE)

II
Canal aqueduct carrying Leeds-Liverpool Canal over public road. c.1771-4. Resident engineer James Brindley, succeeded c.1771-72 by John Longbotham. For Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company. Large squared sandstone blocks and some brick; coursed sandstone rubble parapet (south side only). A low semi-circular culvert with plain voussoirs to the portals, which are flanked by raked abutments at right-angles, that on the south east side of brick (and that on the north east side of concrete), all with flat stone copings carried down from a plain cornice. Short central parapet with rounded coping. Part of one of the earliest and most ambitious trunk canals in the country.
Listing NGR: SD4777111023

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