Leeds and Liverpool Canal Bridge Number 40
LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 40
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1073165
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Leeds and Liverpool Canal Bridge Number 40
- Statutory Address:
- LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 40
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1073165
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Leeds and Liverpool Canal Bridge Number 40
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 40
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:
- LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 40
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Parbold
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 50739 09984
Details
PARBOLD LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL SD 50 NW 10/74 Bridge No 40
- II
Accommodation bridge over Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Probably early 1770s. Coursed sandstone. Single elliptical arch. Band below parapet with coping. The section of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal between Newburgh and Gathurst follows the line of Leigh's Cut, begun by the Douglas Navigation c1753. Work was in progress in 1772, and the canal between Gathurst and Liverpool was opened for traffic in 1774. Hadfield, C., and Biddle, G., The Canals of North West England, 1970, vol I, p73.
Listing NGR: SD5073909984
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357850
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hadfield, C, Biddle, G, The Canals of the British Isles in The Canals of North West England, Vol. 1, (1970), 73
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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