Trent and Mersey Canal, Canal Milepost North of Hoomill Lock at SJ 9976 2417
TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL, CANAL MILEPOST NORTH OF HOOMILL LOCK AT SJ 9976 2417
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243217
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Trent and Mersey Canal, Canal Milepost North of Hoomill Lock at SJ 9976 2417
- Statutory Address:
- TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL, CANAL MILEPOST NORTH OF HOOMILL LOCK AT SJ 9976 2417
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243217
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Trent and Mersey Canal, Canal Milepost North of Hoomill Lock at SJ 9976 2417
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL, CANAL MILEPOST NORTH OF HOOMILL LOCK AT SJ 9976 2417
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:
- TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL, CANAL MILEPOST NORTH OF HOOMILL LOCK AT SJ 9976 2417
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Stafford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Colwich
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 99763 24255
Details
COLWICH TRENT AND MERSEY SJ 92 SE CANAL (West side)
19/10015 Canal Milepost north of Hoomill Lock at SJ 9976 2417 GV 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 39 miles" "Preston Brook 53 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: SJ9976324255
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 446846
- 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.
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