Bridge Number 17 Over Canal, North of Mitchell Fold is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1983. Canal bridge.

Bridge Number 17 Over Canal, North of Mitchell Fold

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1983
Type
Canal bridge
Address
Bridge Number 17 Over Canal, North of Mitchell Fold, Simpson Lane, Sk12, Pott Shrigley
OS grid reference
SJ 945 820
Coordinates
53.33533, -2.08394
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bridge Number 17 over the canal, located north of Mitchell Fold, is a canal bridge built around 1830 by William Crosley for the Macclesfield Canal Company. It is constructed from hammer-dressed sandstone and features a flat wooden center. The bridge has two stone piers with square pilasters extending away from the canal, and it is topped with chamfered coping at road level and segmental coping above a plain parapet. The edges of the bridge are slotted to support a removable wooden roadway, with the current roadway being a 20th-century replacement. A cobbled ramp leads from the towpath to the north-east corner. Additionally, there is an early 20th-century, diamond-shaped cast-iron sign at one corner that indicates wading restrictions. A similar bridge, known as Bridge No. 14, is located in Poynton.

Local climate

Bridge Number 17 Over Canal, North of Mitchell Fold sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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