TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL MILEPOST AT SJ 9493 2888

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240248
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1995
List Entry Name:: TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL MILEPOST AT SJ 9493 2888
Statutory Address:: TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL MILEPOST AT SJ 9493 2888

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240248
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1995
List Entry Name:: TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL MILEPOST AT SJ 9493 2888
Statutory Address 1:: TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL MILEPOST AT SJ 9493 2888

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL MILEPOST AT SJ 9493 2888

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Stafford (District Authority)
Parish:: Sandon and Burston
National Grid Reference:: SJ9493928882

Details

The following building ahall be added to the list:-

SJ 92 NW 15/10003

SANDON TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL (South side)

Canal Milepost at SJ 9493 2888

II

Canal milepost. Dated "R & D Stone 1819" on shaft. Cast iron painted black and white. Circular post with moulded head and embossed letters on 2 convex tablets below: "Shardlow 43 miles" "Preston Brook 49 miles". Probably cast in the foundry of Rangeley and Dixon in Lichfield Street, Stone*. The Trent and Mersey Canal was built between 1766 and 1777 by James Brindley and Hugh Henshall. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands (1966) *Jean Lindsay, The Trent and Mersey Canal (1979)

Listing NGR: SJ9493928882

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 438382
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hadfield, C, The Canals of South West England
Lindsay, J, The Trent and Mersey Canal, (1979)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.