Leeds and Liverpool Canal Hand Lane Bridge (Number 41)

LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL HAND LANE BRIDGE (NUMBER 41)

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1231025
Date first listed:
19-Aug-1988
Statutory Address:
LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL HAND LANE BRIDGE (NUMBER 41)
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1231025
Date first listed:
19-Aug-1988
Statutory Address 1:
LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL HAND LANE BRIDGE (NUMBER 41)

Location

Statutory Address:
LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL HAND LANE BRIDGE (NUMBER 41)

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
West Lancashire (District Authority)
Parish:
Parbold
National Grid Reference:
SD 51263 09854

Details

PARBOLD LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL SD 50 NW 10/75 Hand Lane Bridge (No 41) - II

Accommodation bridge over Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Probably early 1770s. Coursed sandstone. Single elliptical arch. Band below parapet with coping. The section of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal between Newburgh and Gathurst follows the line of Leigh's Cut, begun by the Douglas Navigation c1753. Work was in progress in 1772, and the canal between Gathurst and Liverpool was opened for traffic in 1774. Hadfield, C., and Biddle, G., The Canals of North West England, 1970, vol I, p73.

Listing NGR: SD5126309854

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357851
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Sources

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Hadfield, C, Biddle, G, The Canals of the British Isles in The Canals of North West England, Vol. 1, (1970), 73

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Ordnance survey map of Leeds and Liverpool Canal Hand Lane Bridge (Number 41)

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