Broom's Bridge
BROOM'S BRIDGE, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180237
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Broom's Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- BROOM'S BRIDGE, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
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- Date:
- 1999-09-12
- Reference:
- IOE01/01904/06
- Rights:
- © Mr John Garton - Jones. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180237
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Broom's Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOM'S BRIDGE, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
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:
- BROOM'S BRIDGE, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whittington
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ellesmere Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ3457032798
Details
WHITTINGTON C.P.
SJ 33 SW
5/134
SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
(Llangollen Branch)
Broom's Bridge
II
Canal bridge. Circa 1801 with minor later alterations on William Jessop's and Thomas Telford's Ellesmere Canal. Painted brick with stone coping terminating in square corner piers. Elliptical arch with flat string course and late C20 oval-shaped plate numbered '7' on east side. This section of the former Ellesmere Canal was completed circa 1801.
The Ellesmere Canal Company amalgamated with the Chester Canal Company in 1813 and became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846.
The asset was previously listed twice also under the parish of Ellesmere Rural at List entry 1055910. This entry was removed from the List on 2 October 2017.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 2 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255850
- 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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