Lock on River Lugg Toward Confluence With Wye,national Grid Reference SO569375
LOCK ON RIVER LUGG TOWARD CONFLUENCE WITH WYE,NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SO569375
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348710
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lock on River Lugg Toward Confluence With Wye,national Grid Reference SO569375
- Statutory Address:
- LOCK ON RIVER LUGG TOWARD CONFLUENCE WITH WYE,NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SO569375
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/06697/17
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348710
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lock on River Lugg Toward Confluence With Wye,national Grid Reference SO569375
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOCK ON RIVER LUGG TOWARD CONFLUENCE WITH WYE,NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SO569375
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LOCK ON RIVER LUGG TOWARD CONFLUENCE WITH WYE,NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SO569375
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hampton Bishop
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 56899 37503
Details
FOWNHOPE CP MORDIFORD SO 53 NE SO 569375 Lock on River Lugg 5/56 toward confluence with Wye NGR 569375 - II Pound lock. Possibly early C18. Stone walls of lock chamber flank banks of River Lugg with traces of position of lower lock gate. In poor condition but an interesting survival of the navigation of the Lugg. Permission to navigate the Wye and Lugg as far as Leominster was given by Act of Parliament to Sir William Sandys in 1662. (Nancy Richards: A Brief History of the Navigation of the Rivers Wye and Lugg, 1969, Hereford City Library; John Lloyd: Papers relating to the history and navigation of the Rivers Wye and Lugg, 1873, Hereford City Library, Pilly Collection; Hereford City Quarter Sessions Order Order Book Q/SO/1 & 2, Hereford Record Office).
Listing NGR: SO5690037500
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 154913
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Richards, N, A Brief History of the Navigation of the Rivers Wye and Lugg, (1969)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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