Grand Union Canal Aylesbury Arm Bridge Number 2 (Dixons Gap Bridge) And Lock Number 6 Adjoining On East

TRING RURAL GRAND UNION CANAL- SF 9014 AYLESBURY ARM 9/127 Bridge No. 2 - (Dixon's Gap Bridge) and Lock No. 6 adjoining on East GV II Canal bridge and adjoining lock. 1811-13. Engineer Henry Provis for Grand Junction Canal company. Bridge of red brick in English-bond. Lock of plum brick with long granite edging stones wooden gates and cast iron domed bollards. A narrow hump-backed bride carrying Wingrave Road over canal. A skew-arched bridge with round arch and 9" arch-ring. Battered side-walls topped by narrow raised band at roadway level and parapet walls with courses following the hump. Square projecting end piers terminate the outswept ends of the parapets. E parapet renewed in buff brick. An early example of a skew-bridge, little altered since arm opened in 1815. Narrow lock to take a single narrowboat with its lower end close to E side of bridge. Double gates to lower end with gate-paddles only. Single gate at upper end hinged on N side of lock. This end has ground paddles only, with gear set on timber posts. Stone edging on S bank and brick adjoining on N bank extend about 8M to E of entrance. Dated cast iron hinge anchor plate ('1851' at W end) is probably re-used from elsewhere. (Branch Johnson(1970)118-9,122: Faulkner(1972)92).

Listing NGR: SP9092414473