Description

SJ 98 NE MARPLE PEAK FOREST
CANAL

7/130 Marple Locks
No. 2 and
adjoining
- footbridge

G.V. II

Lock and adjoining footbridge. 1803 to 1805. Benjamin
Outram and Thomas Brown engineers, financed by S. Oldknow
and R. Arkwright and built by James and Fox. Dressed stone
and ashlar. Single upper gate, double lower gate and
footbridge at lower end. 4m. pound-to-pound level to
accommodate steepness of slope. Lock walls in large coursed
stone blocks with rounded verge some having been replaced
and having finely worked arises. The gates have been
overhauled and are fully functional. The footbridge has a
segmental, rusticated keystone arch, an ashlar band and
parapet walls with rounded copings which are terminated by a
battered square pier at one end with a small abutting flight
of steps, and sweeps down at the other end to the level of
the pound.

Listing NGR: SJ9594889911

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26535093

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