MILFORD BRIDGE, NO.105, NORTH OF HOME FARM, MILFORD

MILFORD BRIDGE, NO.105, NORTH OF HOME FARM, MILFORD, STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL

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Overview

Canal accommodation bridge, No. 105. Late-C18 by canal engineer James Brindley for the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393482
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2009
List Entry Name:: MILFORD BRIDGE, NO.105, NORTH OF HOME FARM, MILFORD
Statutory Address:: MILFORD BRIDGE, NO.105, NORTH OF HOME FARM, MILFORD, STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393482
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2009
List Entry Name:: MILFORD BRIDGE, NO.105, NORTH OF HOME FARM, MILFORD
Statutory Address 1:: MILFORD BRIDGE, NO.105, NORTH OF HOME FARM, MILFORD, STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL

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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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:: MILFORD BRIDGE, NO.105, NORTH OF HOME FARM, MILFORD, STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Stafford (District Authority)
Parish:: Berkswich
National Grid Reference:: SJ 96758 21336

Details

BERKSWICH

603/19/10022 STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL 15-OCT-09 MILFORD Milford Bridge, No.105, North of Home Farm, Milford

II Canal accommodation bridge, No. 105. Late-C18 by canal engineer James Brindley for the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.

MATERIAL: Random bond brick with sandstone coping, though replaced in part with engineering brick.

DESCRIPTION: The bridge is ramped down to the towpath approach on the west side, and terminates in corner piers on the east side. It has a semi-elliptical arch, sandstone string course and plain parapets. The west and east faces each carry a cast-iron plaque bearing the name and number of the bridge. There appears to have been some minor repairs to the structure.

HISTORY: The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal was one of the earliest canals, constructed under an Act of 1766 and opened fully for traffic in 1772. Devised by James Brindley, the canal runs for 46½ miles between Great Haywood, where it joins the Trent & Mersey Canal (completed 1777) to Stourport where it connects with the River Severn. The canal forms one of the arms of Brindley's `Grand Cross', a scheme to link the Rivers Trent, Mersey, Thames and Severn, and was the first of the arms to be completed.

SOURCES: Victoria County History, A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 5: East Cuttlestone Hundred (1959) 1-11 J. Ian Langford, Towpath Guide for the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal (1974), 37-8

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: Milford Bridge (No.105) on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Despite some minor repairs, it is good example of a substantially intact canal structure of c.1770 * It is considered to be one of the earliest examples of a turnover bridge in the country * It was designed by James Brindley, a noted navigation engineer * It is of historic interest in the context of both the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal and as part of the national waterways system of the late C18

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 507328
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Langford, JI, Towpath Guide for the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, (1974), 37-38
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1959), 1-11

Legal

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