Trent and Mersey Canal, Canal Milepost at SK 2033 1848

TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL, CANAL MILEPOST AT SK 2033 1848

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1252867
Date first listed:
10-Feb-1995
List Entry Name:
Trent and Mersey Canal, Canal Milepost at SK 2033 1848
Statutory Address:
TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL, CANAL MILEPOST AT SK 2033 1848

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1252867
Date first listed:
10-Feb-1995
List Entry Name:
Trent and Mersey Canal, Canal Milepost at SK 2033 1848
Statutory Address 1:
TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL, CANAL MILEPOST AT SK 2033 1848

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL, CANAL MILEPOST AT SK 2033 1848

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

County:
Staffordshire
District:
East Staffordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Barton-under-Needwood
National Grid Reference:
SK 20352 18477

Details

The following building shall be added to the list:-

SK 21 NW BARTON-UNDER-NEEDWOOD TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL

3/10005 Canal Milepost at SK 2033 1845

- 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 20 miles" "Preston Brook 72 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 ofthe West Midlands (1966) Jean Lindsay, The Trent and Mersey Canal (1979)

Listing NGR: SK2035218477

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Legacy System number:
435974
Legacy System:
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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.

Ordnance survey map of Trent and Mersey Canal, Canal Milepost at SK 2033 1848

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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