Shropshire Union Canal (Edstaston Branch) Squinch Bridge Over Stream Approximately 15 Metres North East Of Allmans Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. Bridge.
Shropshire Union Canal (Edstaston Branch) Squinch Bridge Over Stream Approximately 15 Metres North East Of Allmans Bridge
- WRENN ID
- ghost-cellar-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Type
- Bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
WHIXALL C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION SJ 53 SE CANAL (Edstaston Branch, east side) 5/208 Squinch bridge - over stream approx. 15m north-east of Allmans Bridge GV II Squinch bridge. Circa 1800-06 over drainage ditch running under the Prees Branch of William Jessop's and Thomas Telford's Ellesmere Canal. Red brick with rebuilt coped parapet and single segmental arch. Probably associated with the drainage of Whixall Moss, over which the Prees Branch of the Ellesmere Canal was constructed between c.1800 and 1806. The Ellesmere Canal Company amalgamated with the Chester Canal Company in 1813 and became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846. Included for group value. Charles Hadfield, Canals of the West Midlands (3rd edn. 1985) pp.177, 331.
Listing NGR: SJ4912334920
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