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Latitude: 51.821 / 51°49'15"N
Longitude: -0.6887 / 0°41'19"W
OS Eastings: 490477
OS Northings: 214406
OS Grid: SP904144
Mapcode National: GBR F47.STX
Mapcode Global: VHFRP.0HRD
Plus Code: 9C3XR8C6+9G
Entry Name: Grand Union Canal Aylesbury Arm Bridge Number 3 (Wilstone Bridge) and Lock Number 8 Adjoining on East
Listing Date: 29 May 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1067803
English Heritage Legacy ID: 355764
ID on this website: 101067803
TRING RURAL GRAND UNION CANAL-
SP 9014
AYLESBURY ARM
9/128 Bridge No. 3
- (Wilstone Bridge) and
Lock No. 8 adjoining
on East
GV II
Canal bridge and adjoining lock. 1811-13. Engineer Henry Provis for
Grand Junction Canal Company. Bridge of red brick in English-bond with
granite capping to piers terminating parapet. Lock of plum brick with
brick and granite copings, timber gates, and cast iron domed bollards. A
narrow hump-backed bridge carrying Tring Road over canal. Horseshoe arch
with 9 inch arch-ring. Battered side-walls topped by raised band of 4
courses at roadway level and parapet walls with courses following the
hump. Square projecting end piers terminate the outswept ends of the
parapets. Repairs in buff brick where tow-ropes have cut into brickwork
of arch next towpath. Little altered since arm opened in 1815. Narrow
lock to take a single narrowboat has its lower end close to E side of
bridge. Double gates to lower end with gate-paddles only. Single gate at
upper end hinged on N side of lock. This end has ground paddles only,
with gear set on timber posts. Stone edging extends about 8M to E of
entrance. Dated cast iron hinge anchor plates (1866, 1866 at W:1854 at
E) are probably re-used from elsewhere. (Branch Johnson(1970)118-9,122:
Faulkner(1972)92).
Listing NGR: SP9047714406
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