GRAND UNION CANAL AYLESBURY ARM BRIDGE NUMBER 2 (DIXONS GAP BRIDGE) AND LOCK NUMBER 6 ADJOINING ON EAST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1342232
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: GRAND UNION CANAL AYLESBURY ARM BRIDGE NUMBER 2 (DIXONS GAP BRIDGE) AND LOCK NUMBER 6 ADJOINING ON EAST
Statutory Address:: GRAND UNION CANAL AYLESBURY ARM BRIDGE NUMBER 2 (DIXONS GAP BRIDGE) AND LOCK NUMBER 6 ADJOINING ON EAST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1342232
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: GRAND UNION CANAL AYLESBURY ARM BRIDGE NUMBER 2 (DIXONS GAP BRIDGE) AND LOCK NUMBER 6 ADJOINING ON EAST
Statutory Address 1:: GRAND UNION CANAL AYLESBURY ARM BRIDGE NUMBER 2 (DIXONS GAP BRIDGE) AND LOCK NUMBER 6 ADJOINING ON EAST

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Statutory Address:: GRAND UNION CANAL AYLESBURY ARM BRIDGE NUMBER 2 (DIXONS GAP BRIDGE) AND LOCK NUMBER 6 ADJOINING ON EAST

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County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:: Tring Rural
National Grid Reference:: SP 90924 14473

Details

TRING RURAL GRAND UNION CANAL- SF 9014 AYLESBURY ARM 9/127 Bridge No. 2 - (Dixon's Gap Bridge) and Lock No. 6 adjoining on East GV II Canal bridge and adjoining lock. 1811-13. Engineer Henry Provis for Grand Junction Canal company. Bridge of red brick in English-bond. Lock of plum brick with long granite edging stones wooden gates and cast iron domed bollards. A narrow hump-backed bride carrying Wingrave Road over canal. A skew-arched bridge with round arch and 9" arch-ring. Battered side-walls topped by narrow raised band at roadway level and parapet walls with courses following the hump. Square projecting end piers terminate the outswept ends of the parapets. E parapet renewed in buff brick. An early example of a skew-bridge, little altered since arm opened in 1815. Narrow lock to take a single narrowboat with its lower end close to E side of bridge. Double gates to lower end with gate-paddles only. Single gate at upper end hinged on N side of lock. This end has ground paddles only, with gear set on timber posts. Stone edging on S bank and brick adjoining on N bank extend about 8M to E of entrance. Dated cast iron hinge anchor plate ('1851' at W end) is probably re-used from elsewhere. (Branch Johnson(1970)118-9,122: Faulkner(1972)92).

Listing NGR: SP9092414473

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Legacy System number:: 355763
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 118-9 122
Faulkner, A H , The Grand Junction Canal, (1972), 92

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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.