BRIDGE NUMBER 68 (PRICES BRIDGE)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176952
Date first listed:: 25-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE NUMBER 68 (PRICES BRIDGE)
Statutory Address:: BRIDGE NUMBER 68 (PRICES BRIDGE)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176952
Date first listed:: 25-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE NUMBER 68 (PRICES BRIDGE)
Statutory Address 1:: BRIDGE NUMBER 68 (PRICES BRIDGE)

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BRIDGE NUMBER 68 (PRICES BRIDGE)

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ellesmere Rural
National Grid Reference:: SJ 37458 31842

Details

SJ 33 SE; 8/166

ELLESMERE RURAL C.P., SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL (Llangollen Branch), Bridge No. 68 (Prices Bridge)

II

Accommodation bridge. Circa 1797 to 1801 with minor later alterations on William Jessop's and Thomas Telford's Ellesmere Canal. Red brick with stone-coped parapet terminating in square corner piers. Elliptical arch with projecting keybricks, string course and late C20 oval-shaped plate numbered "68" on east side. This section of the Ellesmere Canal was opened c.1801. The Ellesmere Canal Company amalgamated with the Chester Canal company in 1813 and became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846. Charles Hadfield, Canals of the West Midlands (3rd edn. 1985), p. 173; Edward Wilson, The Ellesmere and Llangollen Canal (1975), pp. 19-20.

Listing NGR: SJ3745831842

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Legacy System number:: 260863
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the West Midlands, (1985), 173
Wilson, E, The Ellesmere and Llangollen Canal, (1975), 19-20

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.