Roving Bridge
ROVING BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1312853
- Date first listed:
- 03-Aug-1984
- Statutory Address:
- ROVING BRIDGE
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- Date:
- 2001-09-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/04239/27
- Rights:
- © Mr Howard W Hilton. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1312853
- Date first listed:
- 03-Aug-1984
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROVING BRIDGE
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ROVING BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wardle
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 61304 57005
Details
SJ 65 NW WARDLE C.P. BARBRIDGE JUNCTION
3/75 Roving Bridge
II
Towing path bridge at the junction of the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal with the Chester to Nantwich length. Circa 1830, said to be by Thomas Telford. Of red and blue bricks with stone dressing. Very humped,elliptical arch. The north parapet has square end piers with rectangular 4-way weathered stone copings, whereas the south parapet sweeps through 90o to join the ground parallel to the canal. The parapet copings are of segmental section between end finishings. Projecting weathered stone carriage band at road level. There is a segmental relieving arch in the abutment of the bridge on the canal side - opposite the tow path. David Owen, "Cheshire Canals" Cheshire History No.10 Autumn 1982.
Listing NGR: SJ6130457005
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 56834
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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Cheshire History in Autumn, Vol. 10, (1982)
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