Shropshire Union Canal Milepost Approximately 116 Metres To South East Of Bridge Number 55 is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. Milepost.
Shropshire Union Canal Milepost Approximately 116 Metres To South East Of Bridge Number 55
- WRENN ID
- pitched-corner-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1987
- Type
- Milepost
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CHESWARDINE C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL SJ 7029-7129 (south-west side) SJ 70626 29345 12/20 Milepost approx. 116 - metres to south-east of Bridge No 55
- II
Milepost. Circa 1830. Cast-iron. Short cylindrical round-topped post with curved rectangular plates to front. 2 to top and one to bottom. Super- scribed serif lettering reads: "AUTHERLEY/JUNCTION" 23 MILES" (left-hand side), "NANTWICH/16/MILES" (right-hand side) and "NORBURY/JUNCTION/7 1/2 MILES" (bottom). 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. Thomas Pellow and Paul Bowen, The Shroppie. A portrait of the Shropshire Union Canal.
Listing NGR: SJ7062629345
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