Bridge Number 68 Adderley Lees Bridge

Adderley Lees Bridge, also known as Bridge Number 68, is a canal bridge built around 1830 by engineers Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton. It is constructed from dressed red and grey sandstone with tooled dressings. The bridge features an elliptical arch made of voussoirs and a raised keystone, giving it a hump-backed shape. It has a chamfered string course and a parapet with square end piers and rounded coping. The abutments are slightly battered and curved. On the towpath side, there are cast-iron corner posts that show grooves from rope haulage. A 20th-century oval metal number plate is attached to the south side. This section of the canal was part of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, which was authorized by an act passed in 1826 and opened in 1835. It was absorbed by the Ellesmere and Chester Canal in 1845 and eventually became part of the Shropshire Union Canal in 1846.