Trent and Mersey Canal Milepost at SJ 8860 3883

Trent and Mersey Canal Milepost at SJ 8860 3883

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1051993
Date first listed:
10-Feb-1995
List Entry Name:
Trent and Mersey Canal Milepost at SJ 8860 3883
Statutory Address:
Trent and Mersey Canal Milepost at SJ 8860 3883
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1051993
Date first listed:
10-Feb-1995
List Entry Name:
Trent and Mersey Canal Milepost at SJ 8860 3883
Statutory Address 1:
Trent and Mersey Canal Milepost at SJ 8860 3883

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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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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Location

Statutory Address:
Trent and Mersey Canal Milepost at SJ 8860 3883

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

County:
Staffordshire
District:
Stafford (District Authority)
Parish:
Barlaston
National Grid Reference:
SJ 88619 38815

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 October 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards

SJ 83 NE
5/10009

BARLSTON
TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL (West side)
Canal Milepost at SJ 8860 3883

II

Canal milepost. Dated "R & D Stone 1819" on shaft. Cast iron painted black and white. Circular post with moulded head and embossed letters on two convex tablets below: "Shardlow 51 miles" "Preston Brook 41 miles". Probably cast in the foundry of Rangeley and Dixon in Lichfield Street, Stone. The Trent and Mersey Canal was built between 1766 and 1777 by James Brindley and Hugh Henshall.

Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands (1966)

Jean Lindsay, The Trent and Mersey Canal (1979)

Listing NGR: SJ8861938815

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
361638
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Hadfield, C, The Canals of South West England, ()
Lindsay, J, The Trent and Mersey Canal, (1979)

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Trent and Mersey Canal Milepost at SJ 8860 3883

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