Shropshire Union Canal (Edstaston Branch) Boodles Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. Canal bridge.
Shropshire Union Canal (Edstaston Branch) Boodles Bridge
- WRENN ID
- little-loggia-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Type
- Canal bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
WHIXALL C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION SJ 43 SE CANAL (Edstaston Branch) 5/210 Boodles Bridge - - II Canal bridge. Circa 1800-06 on the Prees branch of William Jessop's and Thomas Telford's Ellesmere Canal. Red brick with minor engineering brick patching; coped stone parapet. Single elliptical arch with keybricks, string course, parapet and corner piers. The Prees Branch was originally intended to reach Prees Higher Heath but by 1806 had only got as far as Quina Brook, near Edstaston, where it was decided to terminate it. 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 Midlands (3rd edn. 1985) pp.177-8, 331.
Listing NGR: SJ4975833726
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