SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL MILEPOST APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF BRIDGE NUMBER 52

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1055361
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL MILEPOST APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF BRIDGE NUMBER 52
Statutory Address:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL MILEPOST APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF BRIDGE NUMBER 52

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1055361
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL MILEPOST APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF BRIDGE NUMBER 52
Statutory Address 1:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL MILEPOST APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF BRIDGE NUMBER 52

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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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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 MILEPOST APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF BRIDGE NUMBER 52

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 71677 28189

Details

CHESWARDINE C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION SJ 72 NW CANAL (south-west SJ 7167 2818 side) 8/16 Milepost approx. 25 - metres to south-east of Bridge No 52

- II

Milepost. Circa 1830. Cast iron. Short cylindrical round-topped post with curved rectangular plates to front. 2 to top and one to bottom. Super- scribed self lettering reads: "AUTHERLEY/JUNCTION/22 MILES" (left-hand side). "NANTWICH/17/MILES" (right-hand side) and "NORBURY/JUNCTION/6 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: SJ7167728189

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Legacy System number:: 260166
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.