Shropshire Union Canal South West Entrance to Berwick Tunnel
SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL SOUTH WEST ENTRANCE TO BERWICK TUNNEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239507
- Date first listed:
- 17-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Shropshire Union Canal South West Entrance to Berwick Tunnel
- Statutory Address:
- SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL SOUTH WEST ENTRANCE TO BERWICK TUNNEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239507
- Date first listed:
- 17-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Shropshire Union Canal South West Entrance to Berwick Tunnel
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL SOUTH WEST ENTRANCE TO BERWICK TUNNEL
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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 SOUTH WEST ENTRANCE TO BERWICK TUNNEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Upton Magna
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 53826 11453
Details
SJ 51 SW UPTON MAGNA C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL, SJ 5377 1120 Shrewsbury Branch
3/92 South-west entrance to - Berwick Tunnel
- II
Canal tunnel entrance. Dated 1797, possibly by Josiah Clowes or Thomas Telford. Dressed red sandstone with ashlar dressings. Parabolic arch with chamfered voussoirs and triple keystone; curved retaining walls, string course, central square datestone, coped parapet raised to centre, and coped square end piers. Arch bricked up in late C20. Berwick Tunnel (970 yards) was the first canal tunnel to have a towpath incorporated from the start; added at the suggestion of William Reynolds it was wooden, about 3 feet wide and rested on bearers set in the wall allowing the full width of the tunnel to be filled with water and reducing the resistance of boats. The Shrewsbury branch of the Shropshire Union Canal was begun in 1793 with Josiah Clowes as the engineer under William Reynolds, the latter replaced after his death in February 1795 by Thomas Telford, and opened in February 1797. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands, David and Charles (1969), Pp.160 and 163.
Listing NGR: SJ5382611453
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 417408
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the British Isles in The Canals of the West Midlands, (1969), 160, 163
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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