Milepost Adjacent to Locks 47, Church Lawton Top Lock
MILEPOST ADJACENT TO LOCKS 47, CHURCH LAWTON TOP LOCK, TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138765
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Milepost Adjacent to Locks 47, Church Lawton Top Lock
- Statutory Address:
- MILEPOST ADJACENT TO LOCKS 47, CHURCH LAWTON TOP LOCK, TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138765
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Milepost Adjacent to Locks 47, Church Lawton Top Lock
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILEPOST ADJACENT TO LOCKS 47, CHURCH LAWTON TOP LOCK, TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL
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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:
- MILEPOST ADJACENT TO LOCKS 47, CHURCH LAWTON TOP LOCK, TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Church Lawton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 81936 56006
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/01/2013
SJ 85 NW 8193 5603
7/30
CHURCH LAWTON C.P.
TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL
Milepost adjacent to Locks 47, Church Lawton Top Lock
(Formerly listed as Canal Milepost)
II
Canal milepost. Dated "R & D Stone 1819" on shaft. Cast iron painted black and white. Circular post with moulded head and embossed letters on 2 convex tablets below: "Shardlow 64 miles" "Preston Brook 28 miles". Probably cast in the foundry of Rangeley and Dixon in Lichfield Street, Stone*. The Trent and Mersey Canal was built between 1766 and 1777 by James Brindley and Hugh Henshall. Charles Hadfield,
Listing NGR: SJ8193656006
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 56501
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the West Midlands, (1966)
Lindsay, J, The Trent and Mersey Canal, (1979)
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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