SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL MORRIS' BRIDGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237314
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL MORRIS' BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL MORRIS' BRIDGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237314
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL MORRIS' BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL MORRIS' BRIDGE

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 MORRIS' BRIDGE

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District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Whixall
National Grid Reference:: SJ 49354 35394

Details

WHIXALL C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION SJ 43 NE CANAL 1/205 Morris' Bridge - - II Canal lift bridge. Probably c.1800 with later repairs on William Jessop's and Thomas Telford's Ellesmere Canal. Wooden bascule bridge operated by counterweight and chain system. The section of the former Ellesmere Canal between Welsh Frankton and Tilstock Park, on which Morris' Bridge is situated, was built between 1797 and 1804. The Ellesmere Canal Company amalgamated with the Chester Canal Company in 1813 and became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846. Charles Hadfield, Canals of the West Midlands (3rd edn. 1985) p.331.

Listing NGR: SJ4935435394

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Legacy System number:: 428418
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Hadfield, C, The Canals of the West Midlands, (1985), 331

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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.