GRAND UNION CANAL MILEPOST NOW AT SP592686 WATFORD LOCKS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1077020
Date first listed:: 11-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: GRAND UNION CANAL MILEPOST NOW AT SP592686 WATFORD LOCKS
Statutory Address:: GRAND UNION CANAL MILEPOST NOW AT SP592686 WATFORD LOCKS

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Date:: 2001-09-06
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1077020
Date first listed:: 11-Mar-1987
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Jun-1993
List Entry Name:: GRAND UNION CANAL MILEPOST NOW AT SP592686 WATFORD LOCKS
Statutory Address 1:: GRAND UNION CANAL MILEPOST NOW AT SP592686 WATFORD LOCKS

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:: GRAND UNION CANAL MILEPOST NOW AT SP592686 WATFORD LOCKS

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

District:: West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Watford
National Grid Reference:: SP 59295 68653

Details

In the entry for:-

WATFORD GRAND UNION CANAL SP 56 NE 5/284 Milepost at SP596684 Watford Locks II The entry shall be to read:-

SP 56 NE WATFORD GRAND UNION CANAL

5/284 Milepost now at SP592686, Watford Locks

II

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WATFORD GRAND UNION CANAL SP56NE 5/284 Milepost at SP 596684 Watford Locks

- II

Milepost. Late C19. Cast iron with inscription 'G.J.C. Co. Leicester 39 miles'. The Grand Union Canal was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1810. The Watford section was opened in 1814. In 1893-4 the Leicester line of the canal was taken over by the Grand Junction Canal Company. (A.H. Faulkner, The Grand Junction Canal, 1972, p.190).

Listing NGR: SP5929568653

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Legacy System number:: 361171
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Faulkner, A H , The Grand Junction Canal, (1972), 190

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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.