Bridge Number 68 (Prices Bridge) is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1988. Bridge.

Bridge Number 68 (Prices Bridge)

WRENN ID
solitary-panel-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Country
England
Date first listed
25 April 1988
Type
Bridge
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SJ 33 SE; 8/166

ELLESMERE RURAL C.P., SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL (Llangollen Branch), Bridge No. 68 (Prices 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 stone-coped parapet terminating in square corner piers. Elliptical arch with projecting keybricks, string course and late C20 oval-shaped plate numbered "68" on east side. This section of the Ellesmere Canal was opened 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 Midlands (3rd edn. 1985), p. 173; Edward Wilson, The Ellesmere and Llangollen Canal (1975), pp. 19-20.

Listing NGR: SJ3745831842

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