Bridge Number 70

BRIDGE NUMBER 70

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1366538
Date first listed:
25-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:
Bridge Number 70
Statutory Address:
BRIDGE NUMBER 70
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1366538
Date first listed:
25-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:
Bridge Number 70
Statutory Address 1:
BRIDGE NUMBER 70

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BRIDGE NUMBER 70

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

District:
Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Whittington
District:
Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Ellesmere Rural
National Grid Reference:
SJ3698431893

Details

ELLESMERE RURAL C.P.
SJ 33 SE
8/167

SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
(Llangollen Branch)

Bridge No. 70

II

Road bridge. Circa 1801 with minor later alterations on William Jessop's and Thomas Telford's Ellesmere Canal. Red brick with stone-coped parapet ramped down to ends. Elliptical arch with string course and late C20 oval-shaped plate numbered "70" on east side.

This section of the Ellesmere Canal was completed circa 1801. The Ellesmere Canal Company amalgamated with the Chester Canal Company in 1813 and became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846 .

The asset was previously listed twice also at List entry 1367399. That entry was removed from the List on 21 November 2016.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 November 2016.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
260864
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Wilson, E, The Ellesmere and Llangollen Canal, (1975), 19-20
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the West Midlands, (1985), 173

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Bridge Number 70

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