Bridge Number 63, Betton Road 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 63, Betton Road Bridge

WRENN ID
crooked-spire-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
Canal bridge
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SJ 63 SE; 9/85

MARKET DRAYTON C.P., SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL, Bridge No. 63 (Betton Road Bridge)

II

Canal bridge. Circa 1830. Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton, engineers. Dressed red sandstone with tooled dressings. Elliptical skew arch with voussoirs and raised keystones. Humped-back shape with 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. Oval cast-iron number plate to south. This stretch of 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: SJ6831734688

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