Grand Union Canal Aylesbury Arm Bridge Number 6 Near Wilstone At National Grid Reference Sp 8990 1427

TRING RURAL GRAND UNION CANAL - SP 81 SE AYLESBURY ARM 3/130 Bridge No. 6 - Near Wilstone at Grid Ref SP 8990 1427 GV II Accommodation bridge. 1811-14. Engineer Henry Provis, for Grand Junction Canal Company. Red brick in English-bond with granite capping to piers terminating parapet. Large red coping bricks. A narrow hump-backed bridge over a revetted narrowing of the waterway with earth approach ramps at each end. Horseshoe arch with 9" arch-ring. Battered side-walls topped by raised band at roadway level and parapet walls with courses following the hump. Square projecting end piers, stepped back at each level, terminate the outswept ends of the parapets. A little-altered example. (Faulkner(1972)92).

Listing NGR: SP8990214274