ASHTON CANAL TOWPATH BRIDGE OVER JUNCTION WITH STOCKPORT BRANCH CANAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197794
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: ASHTON CANAL TOWPATH BRIDGE OVER JUNCTION WITH STOCKPORT BRANCH CANAL
Statutory Address:: ASHTON CANAL TOWPATH BRIDGE OVER JUNCTION WITH STOCKPORT BRANCH CANAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197794
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: ASHTON CANAL TOWPATH BRIDGE OVER JUNCTION WITH STOCKPORT BRANCH CANAL
Statutory Address 1:: ASHTON CANAL TOWPATH BRIDGE OVER JUNCTION WITH STOCKPORT BRANCH CANAL

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:: ASHTON CANAL TOWPATH BRIDGE OVER JUNCTION WITH STOCKPORT BRANCH CANAL

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

District:: Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 88280 98195

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ89NE ASHTON CANAL, Beswick And Clayton 698-1/5/524 Towpath bridge over junction with Stockport Branch canal

GV II

Towpath bridge over junction with former Stockport Branch canal. Probably c.1800; altered. Red brick and sandstone rubble, with cast-iron beams. Horizontal span carried on cast-iron beams, with long sloped abutment ramps on each side (that on the east side mostly of rubble), with ridged copings to the parapets and cobbled deck; similar ramp at right-angles on south side, recently restored. (Former branch canal now filled in, leaving only a small basin on the south side of the bridge.)

Listing NGR: SJ8828098195

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Legacy System number:: 387906
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.