Grand Union Canal Aylesbury Arm Bridge Number 3 (Wilstone Bridge) And Lock Number 8 Adjoining On East

TRING RURAL GRAND UNION CANAL- SP 9014 AYLESBURY ARM 9/128 Bridge No. 3 - (Wilstone Bridge) and Lock No. 8 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 with granite capping to piers terminating parapet. Lock of plum brick with brick and granite copings, timber gates, and cast iron domed bollards. A narrow hump-backed bridge carrying Tring Road over canal. Horseshoe arch with 9 inch arch-ring. Battered side-walls topped by raised band of 4 courses at roadway level and parapet walls with courses following the hump. Square projecting end piers terminate the outswept ends of the parapets. Repairs in buff brick where tow-ropes have cut into brickwork of arch next towpath. Little altered since arm opened in 1815. Narrow lock to take a single narrowboat has 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 extends about 8M to E of entrance. Dated cast iron hinge anchor plates (1866, 1866 at W:1854 at E) are probably re-used from elsewhere. (Branch Johnson(1970)118-9,122: Faulkner(1972)92).

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