Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Lock No.23 (Lime Kiln Lock And Adjoining Tailbridge No.75 And Aqueduct No. 74)

SADDLEWORTH HUDDERSFIELD NARROW SD 9906 CANAL Uppermill 9/147 Lock No.23 (Lime Kiln Lock and adjoining tailbridge No.75 - and Aqueduct No. 74) G.V. II Lock, tail bridge and adjoining aqueduct over the River Tame. Betweeen 1794 and 1799. Benjamin Outram engineer. Hammer-dressed stone. Lock has single upper and double lower gates, is grooved for stop planks and has a boatman's ladder inserted in one wall dating from the 1984 restoration. The walls have several stonemason's marks. The bridge at the lower end has an elliptical arch and the parapet wall has a stone band, round-topped copings, is terminated in a square pier at one end and sweeps down to towpath level at the other. The aqueduct (higher end of lock) has a skew- segmental arch span, battered side walls with stone band and coping and battered square piers flanking the arch as well as terminating the walls. R.B. Scholfield, 'The Construction of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal', Transactions of the Newcom Society, Vol.53, 1981-2.

Listing NGR: SD9955106310