NEW MARTON BOTTOM LOCK

NEW MARTON BOTTOM LOCK, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1054194
Date first listed:: 02-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: NEW MARTON BOTTOM LOCK
Statutory Address:: NEW MARTON BOTTOM LOCK, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1054194
Date first listed:: 02-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: NEW MARTON BOTTOM LOCK
Statutory Address 1:: NEW MARTON BOTTOM LOCK, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NEW MARTON BOTTOM LOCK, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ellesmere Rural
District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Whittington
National Grid Reference:: SJ3307334168

Details

WHITTINGTON C.P.

SJ 33 SW

5/137

SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL

(Llangollen Branch)

New Marton Bottom Lock

II

Locks. Circa 1801 with minor later alterations on William Jessop's and Thomas Telford's Ellesmere Canal. Regularly coursed and dressed limestone blocks to sides with two sets of gates.

This section of the former Ellesmere Canal was completed circa 1801. The Ellesmere Canal Company amalgamated with the Chester Canal Company in 1813 and became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846.

The asset was previously listed twice also under the parish of Ellesmere Rural at List entry 1176978. This entry was removed from the List on 3 October 2017.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 3 October 2017.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 255853
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.