Moredon Aqueduct is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1986. Aqueduct.

Moredon Aqueduct

WRENN ID
open-wattle-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swindon
Country
England
Date first listed
17 April 1986
Type
Aqueduct
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SU 18 NW PURTON -

9/270 Moredon Aqueduct

II

Aqueduct to carry the North Wilts Canal over the River Ray. 1813- 1819. Three brick culverts each of 1 brick ring. Stone string above and high walls in English bond with end piers and curved wing walls. Stone copings. Derelict at June 1985, the downstream wall partly collapsed. The only significant monument of this canal which linked the Wilts and Berks Canal at Swindon to the Thames and Severn Canal at Latton, and which much facilitated navigation from the west to London avoiding the upper Thames. (Hadfield.C: The Canals of the South and South East of England, 1969.)

Listing NGR: SU1138387831

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