SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL (EDSTASTON BRANCH) SQUINCH BRIDGE OVER STREAM APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES NORTH EAST OF ALLMANS BRIDGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237334
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL (EDSTASTON BRANCH) SQUINCH BRIDGE OVER STREAM APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES NORTH EAST OF ALLMANS BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL (EDSTASTON BRANCH) SQUINCH BRIDGE OVER STREAM APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES NORTH EAST OF ALLMANS BRIDGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237334
Date first listed:: 16-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL (EDSTASTON BRANCH) SQUINCH BRIDGE OVER STREAM APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES NORTH EAST OF ALLMANS BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL (EDSTASTON BRANCH) SQUINCH BRIDGE OVER STREAM APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES NORTH EAST OF ALLMANS BRIDGE

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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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Statutory Address:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL (EDSTASTON BRANCH) SQUINCH BRIDGE OVER STREAM APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES NORTH EAST OF ALLMANS BRIDGE

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Whixall
National Grid Reference:: SJ 49123 34920

Details

WHIXALL C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION SJ 53 SE CANAL (Edstaston Branch, east side) 5/208 Squinch bridge - over stream approx. 15m north-east of Allmans Bridge GV II Squinch bridge. Circa 1800-06 over drainage ditch running under the Prees Branch of William Jessop's and Thomas Telford's Ellesmere Canal. Red brick with rebuilt coped parapet and single segmental arch. Probably associated with the drainage of Whixall Moss, over which the Prees Branch of the Ellesmere Canal was constructed between c.1800 and 1806. The Ellesmere Canal Company amalgamated with the Chester Canal Company in 1813 and became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846. Included for group value. Charles Hadfield, Canals of the West Midlands (3rd edn. 1985) pp.177, 331.

Listing NGR: SJ4912334920

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Legacy System number:: 428421
Legacy System:: LBS

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

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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.