Bridge Number 56 (Burns Wood Bridge)
BRIDGE NUMBER 56 (BURNS WOOD BRIDGE)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176925
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Number 56 (Burns Wood Bridge)
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE NUMBER 56 (BURNS WOOD BRIDGE)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176925
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Number 56 (Burns Wood Bridge)
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE NUMBER 56 (BURNS WOOD BRIDGE)
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 56 (BURNS WOOD BRIDGE)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Welshampton and Lyneal
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 42063 33722
Details
ELLESMERE RURAL C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL SJ 43 SW (Llangollen Branch) 9/156 Bridge No. 56 (Burns Wood - Bridge) - II Accommodation bridge. Circa 1797 to 1801 with minor later alterations on William Jessop's and Thomas Telford's Ellesmere Canal. Red brick with flat stone-coped parapet terminating in square corner piers. Elliptical arch with projecting keybricks, flat string course and late C20 oval-shaped plate numbered "56" on east side. 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. Charles Hadfield, Canals of the West Midiands (3rd edn. 1985), p. 173; Edward Wilson, The Ellesmere and Llangollen Canal (1975), pp. 19-20.
Listing NGR: SJ4206333722
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260855
- 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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