Shropshire Union Canal Bridge Number 48 (Park Heath Bridge) is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. Canal bridge.
Shropshire Union Canal Bridge Number 48 (Park Heath Bridge)
- WRENN ID
- winding-belfry-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1987
- Type
- Canal bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CHESWARDINE C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL SJ 72 NW 8/10 Bridge no. 48 - (Park Heath Bridge)
- II
Canal bridge. Circa 1830. Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton, engineers. Dressed red sandstone with tooled ashlar dressings. Elliptical arch with voussoirs and flush keystone. Flat string course, and parapet with square end piers and rounded coping. Slightly battered and curved abutment. Cast-iron corner posts on towpath side with grooves caused by rope haulage. This stretch of 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; Thomas Fellow and Paul Bowen, The Shroppie. A portrait of the Shropshire Union Canal.
Listing NGR: SJ7313927519
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