Shropshire Union Canal Roundthorn Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. Bridge. 1 related planning application.
Shropshire Union Canal Roundthorn Bridge
- WRENN ID
- grim-lead-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Type
- Bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
WHIXALL C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION SJ 53 NW CANAL 2/204 Roundthorn Bridge - - II Canal roving bridge. Circa 1800 on William Jessop's and Thomas Telford's Ellesmere Canal. Red brick with some engineering brick patching and coped stone parapet; uncoursed rubble to ramped approach on both sides of towpath. Single elliptical arch with keybricks, string course and parapet. The section of the former Ellesmere Canal between Welsh Frankton and Tilstock Park, on which Roundthorn Bridge is situated, was built between 1797 and 1804. 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, 331.
Listing NGR: SJ5006935705
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