MILEPOST APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES TO WEST OF BRIDGE NUMBER 48

MILEPOST APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES TO WEST OF BRIDGE NUMBER 48, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1055358
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: MILEPOST APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES TO WEST OF BRIDGE NUMBER 48
Statutory Address:: MILEPOST APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES TO WEST OF BRIDGE NUMBER 48, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1055358
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: MILEPOST APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES TO WEST OF BRIDGE NUMBER 48
Statutory Address 1:: MILEPOST APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES TO WEST OF BRIDGE NUMBER 48, 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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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:: MILEPOST APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES TO WEST OF BRIDGE NUMBER 48, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Cheswardine
National Grid Reference:: SJ 72982 27498

Details

CHESWARDINE C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL SJ 72 NW (south side) SJ 7298 2750 Milepost approx 150 8/11 metres to west of Bridge - No. 48

- II

Milepost. Circa 1830. Cast iron. Short cylindrical round-topped post with curved rectangular plates to front, 2 to top and one to bottom. Superscribed serif lettering reads: "AUTHERLEY/JUNCTION/21 MILES" (left hand side), "NANTWICH/18/MILE" (right-hand side) and "NORBURY JUNCTION/5 1/2 MILES." (bottom). This stretch of canal was built as part of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal (act passed 1826, opened 1835), which was absorbed by the Ellesmere and Chester Canal in 1845 and eventually became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands, pp 183-9; Thomas Pellow and Paul Bowen, The Shroppie. A portrait of the Shropshire Union Canal.

Listing NGR: SJ7298227498

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Legacy System number:: 260161
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the West Midlands, (1985)
Pellow, T, Bowen, P, The Shroppie A Portrait of the Shropshire Union Canal

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