TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL AIRSHAFT ABOVE BARNTON TUNNEL, OFF OAKWOOD LANE AT SJ 6319 7482

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244328
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL AIRSHAFT ABOVE BARNTON TUNNEL, OFF OAKWOOD LANE AT SJ 6319 7482
Statutory Address:: TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL AIRSHAFT ABOVE BARNTON TUNNEL, OFF OAKWOOD LANE AT SJ 6319 7482

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244328
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL AIRSHAFT ABOVE BARNTON TUNNEL, OFF OAKWOOD LANE AT SJ 6319 7482
Statutory Address 1:: TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL AIRSHAFT ABOVE BARNTON TUNNEL, OFF OAKWOOD LANE AT SJ 6319 7482

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL AIRSHAFT ABOVE BARNTON TUNNEL, OFF OAKWOOD LANE AT SJ 6319 7482

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

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Barnton
National Grid Reference:: SJ 63189 74817

Details

BARNTON TRENT AND MERSEY SJ 67 SW CANAL 1650-/4/10003 Airshaft above Barnton Tunnel, off Oakwood Lane at SJ 6319 7482

II

Air shaft above Barnton Tunnel. Probably late C18 origins. Brick with upper courses rebuilt in engineering brick surmounted by a metal plate. Circular structure. Approximately 1.5m in diameter and 3.5m in height. The Bamton Tunnel was built between 1774 and 1777 by Hugh Henshall. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands (1966) Jean Lindsay, The Trent and Mersey Canal (1979)

Listing NGR: SJ6318974817

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Legacy System number:: 449370
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)

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