SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 79

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367343
Date first listed:: 15-May-1986
List Entry Name:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 79
Statutory Address:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 79

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367343
Date first listed:: 15-May-1986
List Entry Name:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 79
Statutory Address 1:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 79

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:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 79

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Oswestry Rural
National Grid Reference:: SJ 31369 25008

Details

SJ 32 NW OSWESTRY RURAL C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL Maesbury Marsh 6/209 Bridge No. 79 -

GV II

Canal bridge. circa 1796. By William Jessop and Thomas Telford, engineers. Red brick with coped parapet. Segmental arch with string course and corner piers. This section of the Ellesmere Canal, opened in 1796 to link with the Montgomeryshire Canal at Carreghofa, became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands (1966) pp. 169-70.

Listing NGR: SJ3136925008

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 255687
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hadfield, C, 'The Canals of the British Isles' in The Canals of the East Midlands, (1966), 169-70

Legal

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