Huddersfield Narrow Canal Stakes Aqueduct and Tow Path Bridge (Aqueduct Bridge) Over River Tame
HUDDERSFIELD NARROW CANAL STAKES AQUEDUCT AND TOW PATH BRIDGE (AQUEDUCT BRIDGE) OVER RIVER TAME
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356465
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Huddersfield Narrow Canal Stakes Aqueduct and Tow Path Bridge (Aqueduct Bridge) Over River Tame
- Statutory Address:
- HUDDERSFIELD NARROW CANAL STAKES AQUEDUCT AND TOW PATH BRIDGE (AQUEDUCT BRIDGE) OVER RIVER TAME
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356465
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Huddersfield Narrow Canal Stakes Aqueduct and Tow Path Bridge (Aqueduct Bridge) Over River Tame
- Statutory Address 1:
- HUDDERSFIELD NARROW CANAL STAKES AQUEDUCT AND TOW PATH BRIDGE (AQUEDUCT BRIDGE) OVER RIVER TAME
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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:
- HUDDERSFIELD NARROW CANAL STAKES AQUEDUCT AND TOW PATH BRIDGE (AQUEDUCT BRIDGE) OVER RIVER TAME
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Tameside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 95434 98233
Details
SJ 99 NE STALYBRIDGE HUDDERSFIELD NARROW CANAL
4/144 Stakes Aqueduct and tow-path bridge (Aqueduct Bridge) over - River Tame
- II
Aqueduct and tow-path bridge. 1800. Benjamin Outram engineer, designedand cast at Butterley Iron Works. Cast iron and dressed stone respectively. Cast iron trough aqueduct flanked by a hump-backed tow-path bridge. The aqueduct was fabricated in situ out of rectangular cast iron sections which are bolted together. Each section has a large tension flange, a small compression flange, and webbed side flanges. Each end has stop plank housings. Remedial measures which involved using the stone arch of the tow-path bridge to support the aqueduct mid-span date from 1875. The tow- path bridge has an elliptical arch, a stone band and a hump- backed parapet with round-topped copings which has half been rebuilt with a level parapet. A built-in mile stone records "191 miles" and a bench mark. The aqueduct replaced the original stone aqueduct of 1795 and is amongst the earliest iron trough aqueducts in Britain. Transactions of the Newcomen Society, Vol. 53 1981-2 pp 17-38.
Listing NGR: SJ9543498233
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212605
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Newcomen Society in Transactions of the Newcomen Society, Vol. 53, (1981-1982), 17-38
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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