TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL MILEPOST NORTH OF LONGTON ROAD AT SJ 8800 4165

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1242005
Date first listed:: 19-Jul-1995
List Entry Name:: TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL MILEPOST NORTH OF LONGTON ROAD AT SJ 8800 4165
Statutory Address:: TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL MILEPOST NORTH OF LONGTON ROAD AT SJ 8800 4165

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1242005
Date first listed:: 19-Jul-1995
List Entry Name:: TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL MILEPOST NORTH OF LONGTON ROAD AT SJ 8800 4165
Statutory Address 1:: TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL MILEPOST NORTH OF LONGTON ROAD AT SJ 8800 4165

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 NORTH OF LONGTON ROAD AT SJ 8800 4165

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

District:: City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 87998 41648

Details

STOKE ON TRENT

TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL SJ 84 SE 613-0/6/10021 Canal Milepost North of Longton Road at SJ 8800 4165

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 two convex tablets below: "Shardlow 53 miles" "Preston Brook 39 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 Lindsey, The Trent and Mersey Canal [1979].

Listing NGR: SJ8799841648

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Legacy System number:: 441347
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Lindsay, J, The Trent and Mersey Canal, (1979)
Hadfield, C, 'The Canals of the British Isles' in The Canals of the East Midlands, (1966)

Legal

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