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Grand Union Canal Aylesbury Arm Bridge Number 2 (Dixons Gap Bridge) and Lock Number 6 Adjoining on East

A Grade II Listed Building in Tring, Hertfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8215 / 51°49'17"N

Longitude: -0.6822 / 0°40'55"W

OS Eastings: 490924

OS Northings: 214473

OS Grid: SP909144

Mapcode National: GBR F47.NBW

Mapcode Global: VHFRP.4G6Z

Plus Code: 9C3XR8C9+H4

Entry Name: Grand Union Canal Aylesbury Arm Bridge Number 2 (Dixons Gap Bridge) and Lock Number 6 Adjoining on East

Listing Date: 29 May 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1342232

English Heritage Legacy ID: 355763

ID on this website: 101342232

Location: Wilstone, Dacorum, Hertfordshire, HP23

County: Hertfordshire

District: Dacorum

Civil Parish: Tring Rural

Built-Up Area: Tring

Traditional County: Hertfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire

Church of England Parish: Tring

Church of England Diocese: St.Albans

Tagged with: Bridge Lock

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Description


TRING RURAL GRAND UNION CANAL-
SF 9014
AYLESBURY ARM
9/127 Bridge No. 2
- (Dixon's Gap Bridge)
and Lock No. 6
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. Lock
of plum brick with long granite edging stones wooden gates and cast iron
domed bollards. A narrow hump-backed bride carrying Wingrave Road over
canal. A skew-arched bridge with round arch and 9" arch-ring. Battered
side-walls topped by narrow raised band at roadway level and parapet
walls with courses following the hump. Square projecting end piers
terminate the outswept ends of the parapets. E parapet renewed in buff
brick. An early example of a skew-bridge, little altered since arm
opened in 1815. Narrow lock to take a single narrowboat with 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 on S bank and brick adjoining on N bank extend about 8M to E of
entrance. Dated cast iron hinge anchor plate ('1851' at W end) is
probably re-used from elsewhere. (Branch Johnson(1970)118-9,122:
Faulkner(1972)92).


Listing NGR: SP9092414473

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