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Latitude: 52.8584 / 52°51'30"N
Longitude: -2.4307 / 2°25'50"W
OS Eastings: 371094
OS Northings: 329080
OS Grid: SJ710290
Mapcode National: GBR 7X.RXSB
Mapcode Global: WH9CB.MFQ0
Plus Code: 9C4VVH59+9P
Entry Name: Shropshire Union Canal Bridge number 54 (Westcottmill Bridge)
Listing Date: 25 February 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1055362
English Heritage Legacy ID: 260168
ID on this website: 101055362
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19 October 2022 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SJ 7029-7129
12/18
CHESWARDINE C.P.
SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
Bridge No 54 (Westcottmill Bridge)
II
Canal bridge. Circa 1830. Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton, engineers. Dressed red sandstone with tooled ashlar dressings. Elliptical arch with voussoirs and flush keystone. Flat string course, and parapet with square end piers and rounded coping. Slightly battered and curved abutments. Cast-iron corner posts on towpatch side with grooves formed by rope haulage. Oval cast-iron number plate.
This stretch of canal was built as part of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal (act passed 1826, opened 1835), which was absorbed by the Ellesmere and Chester Canal in 1845 and eventually became part of the Shropshire Union in 1845.
Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands, pp. 183-9; Thomas Pellow and Paul Bowen. The Shroppie. A Portrait of the Shropshire Union Canal.
Listing NGR: SJ7109429080
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