Bridge Number 62 (Coachman's Bridge)
Bridge Number 62 (Coachman's Bridge), Shropshire Union Canal, Llangollen Branch
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055908
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Number 62 (Coachman's Bridge)
- Statutory Address:
- Bridge Number 62 (Coachman's Bridge), Shropshire Union Canal, Llangollen Branch
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055908
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Number 62 (Coachman's Bridge)
- Statutory Address 1:
- Bridge Number 62 (Coachman's Bridge), Shropshire Union Canal, Llangollen Branch
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Bridge Number 62 (Coachman's Bridge), Shropshire Union Canal, Llangollen Branch
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ellesmere Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 38534 32977
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 April 2023 to remove superfluous source details and reformat the text to current standards
SJ 33 SE
8/161
ELLESMERE RURAL C.P.
SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL (Llangollen Branch)
Bridge No. 62 (Coachman's Bridge)
GV
II
Road bridge. Circa 1797 to 1801 with minor later alterations on William Jessop's and Thomas Telford's Ellesmere Canal. Red brick with stone-coped parapet terminating in square corner piers. Elliptical arch with string course. This section of the Ellesmere Canal was completed c.1801. The Ellesmere Canal Company amalgamated with the Chester Canal Company in 1813 and became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846.
Listing NGR: SJ3853432977
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260859
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wilson, E, The Ellesmere and Llangollen Canal, (1975), 19-20
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the West Midlands, (1985), 173
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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