MILEPLATE CIRCA 56 METRES WEST OF BRIDGE NO. 59 GRAND UNION CANAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1294198
Date first listed:: 09-Mar-1989
List Entry Name:: MILEPLATE CIRCA 56 METRES WEST OF BRIDGE NO. 59 GRAND UNION CANAL
Statutory Address:: MILEPLATE CIRCA 56 METRES WEST OF BRIDGE NO. 59 GRAND UNION CANAL

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Date:: 2004-08-21
Reference:: IOE01/12948/35
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1294198
Date first listed:: 09-Mar-1989
List Entry Name:: MILEPLATE CIRCA 56 METRES WEST OF BRIDGE NO. 59 GRAND UNION CANAL
Statutory Address 1:: MILEPLATE CIRCA 56 METRES WEST OF BRIDGE NO. 59 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:: MILEPLATE CIRCA 56 METRES WEST OF BRIDGE NO. 59 GRAND UNION CANAL

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Harborough (District Authority)
Parish:: Lubenham
National Grid Reference:: SP 68756 88406

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14/05/2012

SP 68 NE 4/43

LUBENHAM LUBENHAM Mileplate c 56 m west of bridge nr 59 Grand Union Canal

GV II

Mileplate. Late C19/early C20. Cast iron. Inscribed on front: GJC CO LEICESTER 19 MILES. Inscribed on back: LONDON AND LANCASHIRE ELECTRICAL AND GEN ENGINEERING CO LIMITED LONDON. Grand Union Canal, engineered by Benjamin Bevan, completed in 1814.

Listing NGR: SP6875688406

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Legacy System number:: 191370
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.