Hazlehurst Aqueduct is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. Aqueduct. 1 related planning application.
Hazlehurst Aqueduct
- WRENN ID
- fallen-zinc-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1967
- Type
- Aqueduct
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CHEDDLETON C.P. CALDON CANAL SJ 95 SE 5/40 Hazlehurst Aqueduct 3.1.67
- II
Aqueduct. Dated 1841. Painted brickwork with stone dressings. Single round arch (including towpath) with several bands to extrados, inset spandrel panels finished at centre by inscribed plaque: "HAZLEHURST/AQUEDUCT/1841". Parapet over, on corbels; the sides of the parapet and main face are swept round in a curve and tapered down to piers to take the embankment of the upper (Leek Branch) canal. The Leek Branch of the Caldon Canal was opened circa 1801, John Rennie engineer. The Caldon Canal which it crosses was opened circa 1779. The early surveys of the main canal were done in 1772 by James Brindley, but upon his untimely death the work was taken over by Rennie. The Leek Branch was built to take cheaper coal to Leek, the main canal took limestone from Caldon Low to the Potteries.
Listing NGR: SJ9542853626
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