GREAT HANGING BRIDGE

GREAT HANGING BRIDGE, MEADOW LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1163803
Date first listed:: 30-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: GREAT HANGING BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: GREAT HANGING BRIDGE, MEADOW LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1163803
Date first listed:: 30-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: GREAT HANGING BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: GREAT HANGING BRIDGE, MEADOW LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: GREAT HANGING BRIDGE, MEADOW LANE

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Chorley (District Authority)
Parish:: Croston
National Grid Reference:: SD 46651 17980

Details

CROSTON MEADOW LANE SD 41 NE 8/84 Great Hanging Bridge - - II

Public road bridge over new cut of River Douglas. Probably early to mid-C18. Rock-faced sandstone. Three-span. Low segmental arches with triple keystones and archbands, rounded cutwaters and pilastered piers; parapets of large tooled blocks (probably replacements) that on the south lettered on the inner side GREAT HANGING BRIDGE. History: River Douglas was improved for navigation between 1720 and 1742, to provide an outlet from the Wigan coalfield and the Ribble Estuary. Item closely resembles White Bridge in Mawdesley CP (qv).

Listing NGR: SD4665117980

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Legacy System number:: 184336
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.