Cheswardine Road Bridge (Bridge Number 56) is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. Canal bridge.

Cheswardine Road Bridge (Bridge Number 56)

WRENN ID
sleeping-moulding-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1987
Type
Canal bridge
Source
Historic England listing

Description

CHESWARDINE C.P.

SJ 73 SW

4/21

SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL, Haywood Road

Chewardine Road Bridge (Bridge Number 56)

II

Canal bridge. Circa 1830. Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton, engineers. Dressed red sandstone with tooled ashlar dressings. Elliptical arch with voussoirs and raised keystone. Flat string course, and parapet with square end piers and rounded coping. Slightly battered and curved abutments. Oval cast-iron number plate.

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.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 September 2017.

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