FLIGHT OF 5 LOCKS ON THE FORMER SOMERSETSHIRE COAL CANAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232613
Date first listed:: 14-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: FLIGHT OF 5 LOCKS ON THE FORMER SOMERSETSHIRE COAL CANAL
Statutory Address:: FLIGHT OF 5 LOCKS ON THE FORMER SOMERSETSHIRE COAL CANAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232613
Date first listed:: 14-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: FLIGHT OF 5 LOCKS ON THE FORMER SOMERSETSHIRE COAL CANAL
Statutory Address 1:: FLIGHT OF 5 LOCKS ON THE FORMER SOMERSETSHIRE COAL 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:: FLIGHT OF 5 LOCKS ON THE FORMER SOMERSETSHIRE COAL CANAL

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District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Southstoke
National Grid Reference:: ST 74420 60595

Details

ST 76 SW SOUTH STOKE

6/222 Flight of 5 Locks on the Former Somersetshire Coal Canal - II

Five disused locks. Circa 1805. The surveyor for the Canal Company was William Smith, 'Father of British Geology'. Engineer for this flight originally of 19 locks (four are now buried or destroyed and ten are in the adjoining parish of Combe Hay) was probably William Bennet. The locks are of standard dimensions, approximately 70 feet long by 7 feet wide. Ashlar retaining walls survive to about 10-12 feet high (some are in a poor condition); the entrance and exit walls are battered and splayed. Some remains of sluices and culverts. The fourth lock from the west retains a milestone on the north-west side; a cast iron plate (now missing) read 4/MILES. These five locks, as part of the original flight of 19, represent the final, successful attempt to achieve the change in level on the Paulton branch of the canal. Two former attempts - a caisson lock, and an inclined plane with 3 lower locks - had failed. (K.R. Clew, The Somersetshire Coal Canal and Railways, Country Life, 6.IV.1951.).

Listing NGR: ST7442060595

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Legacy System number:: 407982
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Clew, K R , The Somersetshire Coal Canal and Railway
'Country Life' in 6 April, (1951)

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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.