LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL, SEVEN CANAL LOCKS SPACED ALONG 1 KILOMETRE OF LEEDS LIVERPOOL CANAL FROM TOP LOCK BRIDGE ON COPTHURST LANE AT NORTH END TO JUNCTION WITH WALTON SUMMIT BRANCH AT SOUTH END

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1204630
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:: LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL, SEVEN CANAL LOCKS SPACED ALONG 1 KILOMETRE OF LEEDS LIVERPOOL CANAL FROM TOP LOCK BRIDGE ON COPTHURST LANE AT NORTH END TO JUNCTION WITH WALTON SUMMIT BRANCH AT SOUTH END
Statutory Address:: LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL, SEVEN CANAL LOCKS SPACED ALONG 1 KILOMETRE OF LEEDS LIVERPOOL CANAL FROM TOP LOCK BRIDGE ON COPTHURST LANE AT NORTH END TO JUNCTION WITH WALTON SUMMIT BRANCH AT SOUTH END

User submitted image — Uploaded by Phil Platt This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2001-06-12
Reference:: IOE01/02936/34
Rights:: © Mr Roy Finch. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1204630
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:: LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL, SEVEN CANAL LOCKS SPACED ALONG 1 KILOMETRE OF LEEDS LIVERPOOL CANAL FROM TOP LOCK BRIDGE ON COPTHURST LANE AT NORTH END TO JUNCTION WITH WALTON SUMMIT BRANCH AT SOUTH END
Statutory Address 1:: LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL, SEVEN CANAL LOCKS SPACED ALONG 1 KILOMETRE OF LEEDS LIVERPOOL CANAL FROM TOP LOCK BRIDGE ON COPTHURST LANE AT NORTH END TO JUNCTION WITH WALTON SUMMIT BRANCH AT SOUTH END

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL, SEVEN CANAL LOCKS SPACED ALONG 1 KILOMETRE OF LEEDS LIVERPOOL CANAL FROM TOP LOCK BRIDGE ON COPTHURST LANE AT NORTH END TO JUNCTION WITH WALTON SUMMIT BRANCH AT SOUTH END

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Chorley (District Authority)
Parish:: Whittle-le-Woods
National Grid Reference:: SD 59234 21147

Details

SD 52 SE WHITTLE-LE-WOODS JOHNSON'S HILLOCK

Seven Canal Locks spaced along 1km of Leeds-Liverpool Canal,from Top 3/159 Lock Bridge on Copthurst Lane at N. - end, to junction with Walton Summit GV Branch at S. end

II

Seven canal locks by which Leeds - Liverpool Canal was joined to Lancaster Canal South End in 1816. Large gritstone blocks: wooden gates (some now have metal push bars) with iron sluices etc. Locks do not form a single flight, but are irregularly spaced in a total length of 1 km from Top Lock Bridge on Copthurst Lane at the north end to the junction with Walton Summit Branch at the south end. All are of standard form, all have wooden footbridges at the lower end,but the entrances of Top Lock, 4th Lock and 7th Lock differ: lower entrance of Top Lock and upper entrance of 4th lock are extended to pass under (respectively) Top Lock Bridge (q.v.) and 4th Lock Bridge (q.v.) and the left wall at the lower entrance to 7th lock turns round the junction to form a bullnose which is crossed by a raised stone causeway between 2 footbridges. Between the 3 lowest locks are 2 basins. All locks in working order. (Part of Top Lock, and Top Lock House which shares GV are in Heapey CP).

Listing NGR: SD5923421147

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 357677
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.