Dock And Lock Walls At Bullo Pill

The dock and lock walls at Bullo Pill are 19th-century structures made of heavy sandstone that is squared and dressed, featuring very large bull-nosed coping blocks. At the river's edge, the wall rises approximately 6 meters from the mud level and extends about 40 meters southward from the dock opening, though it deteriorates at the end. The wall returns about 90 meters to the west on the south side of the dock and lock, with around 54 meters of well-formed lock and entrance walling that steps down to a lower containing wall, which ends in grass at the west. These measurements are approximate and only refer to the south bank of the dock; the north bank corresponds for the first 54 meters westward from the river edge and is partially buried under later grass and other growth to the west. This site is an important remnant of the former trade routes in and across the River Severn. The dock gates are only present in fragmentary form at the time of the survey.