Bridge Number 56 (Burns Wood Bridge) is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1988. Bridge.
Bridge Number 56 (Burns Wood Bridge)
- WRENN ID
- small-gravel-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1988
- Type
- Bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ELLESMERE RURAL C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL SJ 43 SW (Llangollen Branch) 9/156 Bridge No. 56 (Burns Wood - Bridge) - II Accommodation bridge. Circa 1797 to 1801 with minor later alterations on William Jessop's and Thomas Telford's Ellesmere Canal. Red brick with flat stone-coped parapet terminating in square corner piers. Elliptical arch with projecting keybricks, flat string course and late C20 oval-shaped plate numbered "56" on east side. This section of the Ellesmere Canal was completed c.1801. The Ellesmere Canal Company amalgamated with the Chester Canal Company in 1813 and became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846. Charles Hadfield, Canals of the West Midiands (3rd edn. 1985), p. 173; Edward Wilson, The Ellesmere and Llangollen Canal (1975), pp. 19-20.
Listing NGR: SJ4206333722
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