Bridge Number 66 Bettonwood Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Canal bridge.
Bridge Number 66 Bettonwood Bridge
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-railing-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Canal bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SJ 63 NE NORTON IN HALES C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
6/136 Bridge No. 66 (Bettonwood Bridge) II
Canal Bridge. C.1830. Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton, engineers. Dressed red/grey sandstone with tooled dressings. Elliptical arch with voussoirs and flush keystone. Hump-backed shape with chamfered string course and parapet with square end piers and rounded coping. Slightly battered and curved abutments. Cast-iron corner posts on towpath side with grooves caused by rope haulage. C20 oval metal number plate to south. This stretch of the canal was built as part of the Birmingham and liverpool Junction Canal (Act passed 1826, opened 1835) which was absorbed by the Ellesmere and Chester Canal in 1845 and eventually became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands, pp. 183-9.
Listing NGR: SJ6700137376
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