Canal Aqueduct

CANAL AQUEDUCT, CULVERT LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1221011
Date first listed:
01-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:
Canal Aqueduct
Statutory Address:
CANAL AQUEDUCT, CULVERT LANE
Canal Aqueduct carrying the Leeds and Liverpool Canal over culverted public road. Constructed circa 1771-4.
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Date:
1999-09-07
Reference:
IOE01/00820/32
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1221011
Date first listed:
01-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:
Canal Aqueduct
Statutory Address 1:
CANAL AQUEDUCT, CULVERT LANE

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CANAL AQUEDUCT, CULVERT LANE

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
West Lancashire (District Authority)
Parish:
Newburgh
National Grid Reference:
SD 48196 10776

Details

NEWBURGH

SD4810 CULVERT LANE 663-1/6/115 Canal Aqueduct

GV II

Canal aqueduct carrying Leeds-Liverpool Canal over culverted public road. c.1771-4. Resident engineer James Brindley, succeeded c.1771-2 by John Longbotham. For Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company. Large squared sandstone blocks with some coursed sandstone rubble. A low semi-circular arched culvert with plain voussoirs to the portal at each end, a plain band over the arch, a plain cornice and parapet of coursed rubble. Part of one of the earliest and most ambitious trunk canals in the country. Forms group with Giant's Hall approx. 30m north (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD4819610776

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386353
Legacy System:
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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.

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