Albert Street Cutting, Bridgwater And Taunton Canal

The Albert Street Cutting on the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal is a canal cutting built between 1839 and 1841, engineered by Thomas Maddicks. It features two sandstone rubble walls that are approximately 1210 meters long and 4.5 meters high, running along the towpath and the opposite side of the canal from about 15 meters southeast of Albert Street Bridge to approximately 50 meters northwest of West Street Bridge. The walls include plain pilasters at regular intervals and plain stone bands above. A short section of the offside wall southeast of West Street Bridge has been rebuilt using concrete blocks. There is also a rubblestone towpath retaining wall with squared flagstone edging. The Bridgwater and Taunton Canal itself was constructed between 1824 and 1827, with James Hollinsworth as the engineer, and was extended into Bridgwater by Thomas Maddicks in the later years.