SOUTH PORTAL OF BLISWORTH TUNNEL

SOUTH PORTAL OF BLISWORTH TUNNEL, GRAND UNION CANAL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1294177
Date first listed:: 15-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: SOUTH PORTAL OF BLISWORTH TUNNEL
Statutory Address:: SOUTH PORTAL OF BLISWORTH TUNNEL, GRAND UNION CANAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1294177
Date first listed:: 15-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: SOUTH PORTAL OF BLISWORTH TUNNEL
Statutory Address 1:: SOUTH PORTAL OF BLISWORTH TUNNEL, GRAND UNION CANAL

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:: SOUTH PORTAL OF BLISWORTH TUNNEL, GRAND UNION CANAL

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

District:: West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stoke Bruerne
National Grid Reference:: SP 73894 50270

Details

SP 75 SW STOKE BRUERNE GRAND UNION CANAL

4/161 South portal of Blisworth tunnel

II

Canal tunnel portal. c.1800, restored 1980. Red brick, patched with blue brick. Elliptical-arched portal, brick-coped parapet and band at base of parapet. Tunnel begun 1797 and opened 1805. One of the longest canal tunnels built and still in use (3,076 yards, 2,820 metres). (K. Falconer: Guide to Englands' Industrial Heritage, 1980, p167)

Listing NGR: SP7389450270

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

Legacy System number:: 234981
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Falconer, K, Guide to Englands Industrial Heritage, (1980), 167

Legal

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