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Shropshire Union Canal Bridge number 54 (Westcottmill Bridge)

A Grade II Listed Building in Cheswardine, Shropshire

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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

Location: Goldstone, Shropshire, TF9

County: Shropshire

Civil Parish: Cheswardine

Traditional County: Shropshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire

Church of England Parish: Cheswardine St Swithun

Church of England Diocese: Lichfield

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Description


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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