Astwood Lane Bridge Number 40 is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1975. Canal bridge.
Astwood Lane Bridge Number 40
- WRENN ID
- fallen-keystone-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1975
- Type
- Canal bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
HANBURY CP WORCESTER AND BIRMINGHAM SO 96 NW SO 96 SW CANAL SO 93776500 1/149 (11/84) Astwood Lane Bridge No 40 3/149 [formerly listed as Wychbold (Hanbury Road) Bridge under DODDERHILL CP] 26.8.75 - II
Canal road bridge. Early C19 with mid-C19 alterations. Red brick with red and blue brick parapet and part sandstone, part blue brick coping. Elliptical arch and cambered sides; parapet has a 2-course band at its base, is built of alternating courses of blue headers and red stretchers, is splayed at each end and is terminated by square piers. The Worcester and Birmingham Canal was built for the Earl of Dudley between 1791 and 1815 to link the Birmingham Canal Navigations with the River Severn. It was intended, primarily, as a means of supplying coal from the Black Country to the West Midlands. The towpath runs beneath the east side of the bridge.
Listing NGR: SO9366665000
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