Bridge Number 73 Adderley Pool Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Bridge.

Bridge Number 73 Adderley Pool Bridge

WRENN ID
stony-tracery-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
Bridge
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SJ 64 SE ADDERLEY C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL

2/15 Bridge No. 73 (Adderley - Pool Bridge)

  • II

Canal bridge. Circa 1830. Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton, engineers. Limewashed red brick with some blue brick dressings. Elliptical arch. Humped-back shape with chamfered stone string course and parapet with square end piers and rounded stone coping. Slightly battered and curved abutments. Cast-iron corner posts on towpath side with grooves caused by rope haulage. Oval cast-iron number plate to south-east. 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.

Listing NGR: SJ6656140515

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