Shropshire Union Canal (Edstaston Branch) Boodles Bridge
SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL (EDSTASTON BRANCH) BOODLES BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237348
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Shropshire Union Canal (Edstaston Branch) Boodles Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL (EDSTASTON BRANCH) BOODLES BRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237348
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Shropshire Union Canal (Edstaston Branch) Boodles Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL (EDSTASTON BRANCH) BOODLES BRIDGE
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL (EDSTASTON BRANCH) BOODLES 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 49758 33726
Details
WHIXALL C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION SJ 43 SE CANAL (Edstaston Branch) 5/210 Boodles Bridge - - II Canal bridge. Circa 1800-06 on the Prees branch of William Jessop's and Thomas Telford's Ellesmere Canal. Red brick with minor engineering brick patching; coped stone parapet. Single elliptical arch with keybricks, string course, parapet and corner piers. The Prees Branch was originally intended to reach Prees Higher Heath but by 1806 had only got as far as Quina Brook, near Edstaston, where it was decided to terminate it. 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) pp.177-8, 331.
Listing NGR: SJ4975833726
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428423
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the West Midlands, (1985), 177-8,331
Legal
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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