SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL DIRECTION POST ABOUT 115 METRES SOUTH EAST OF BRIDGE NUMBER 59

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1206003
Date first listed:: 14-May-1985
List Entry Name:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL DIRECTION POST ABOUT 115 METRES SOUTH EAST OF BRIDGE NUMBER 59
Statutory Address:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL DIRECTION POST ABOUT 115 METRES SOUTH EAST OF BRIDGE NUMBER 59

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1206003
Date first listed:: 14-May-1985
List Entry Name:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL DIRECTION POST ABOUT 115 METRES SOUTH EAST OF BRIDGE NUMBER 59
Statutory Address 1:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL DIRECTION POST ABOUT 115 METRES SOUTH EAST OF BRIDGE NUMBER 59

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:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL DIRECTION POST ABOUT 115 METRES SOUTH EAST OF BRIDGE NUMBER 59

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Newcastle-under-Lyme (District Authority)
Parish:: Loggerheads
National Grid Reference:: SJ 69354 32167

Details

SJ 63 SE LOGGERHEADS C.P SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL (west side) Tyrley

11/160 Direction post about 115m south-east of Bridge No.59

II

Direction post. C.1830. Cast iron. Short cylindrical round-topped post with rectangular plates attached to front, 2 to top and one to bottom. Raised lettering on plates reads: "AUTHERLEY/JUNCTION/25 MILES" (left-hand side); "NANTWICH/14/MILES" (right-hand side) and "NORBURY/JUNCTION/9½ MILES" (bottom). This stretch of canal formerly formed part of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal (Act passed 1826, opened 1835), which was absorbed by the Ellesmere and Chester Canal in 1845 and eventually became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846. V.C.H. II, (1967), p.295; Charles Hadfield, The Canals of. the West Midlands, (1966), Pp.183-9.

Listing NGR: SJ6935432167

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Legacy System number:: 362642
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the West Midlands, (1985), 183-9
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1967)

Legal

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