BRIDGE NO 33 (HASSEL'S LIFT UP BRIDGE NUMBER 1)

BRIDGE NO 33 (HASSEL'S LIFT UP BRIDGE NUMBER 1), SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL LLANGOLLEN BRANCH

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366525
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE NO 33 (HASSEL'S LIFT UP BRIDGE NUMBER 1)
Statutory Address:: BRIDGE NO 33 (HASSEL'S LIFT UP BRIDGE NUMBER 1), SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL LLANGOLLEN BRANCH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366525
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE NO 33 (HASSEL'S LIFT UP BRIDGE NUMBER 1)
Statutory Address 1:: BRIDGE NO 33 (HASSEL'S LIFT UP BRIDGE NUMBER 1), SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL LLANGOLLEN BRANCH

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BRIDGE NO 33 (HASSEL'S LIFT UP BRIDGE NUMBER 1), SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL LLANGOLLEN BRANCH

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Whitchurch Urban
National Grid Reference:: SJ 52137 41175

Details

WHITCHURCH URBAN C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL, SJ 54 SW SJ 5213 4117 Llangollen Branch 1/126 Bridge No. 33 (Hassel's - Lift-up Bridge No.l) - II

Canal lift bridge. Circa 1804. William Jessop and Thomas Telford engineers. Bascule bridge, consisting of a braced wooden frame supporting a pair of pivotted wooden beams, attached by chains to the deck of the bridge at one end and counterweighted at the other. The Ellesmere Canal Company amalgamated with the Chester Canal Company in 1813 and became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands (1fcst edn. 1966), pp. 166-183; Edward Wilson, The Ellesmere and Llangollen Canal, pp. 19-22.

Listing NGR: SJ5213741175

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 260683
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Wilson, E, The Ellesmere and Llangollen Canal, (1975), 19-22
Hadfield, C, 'The Canals of the British Isles' in The Canals of the East Midlands, (1966), 166-183

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.