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Large concrete block placed across path over the bridge, plus vertical steel rail (ex-rail line). Parapet also removed (in war).
(Source: Field Visit 1998/03/14)
Type of site | CUBE |
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Location | On deck of canal bridge, Macclesfield Canal, Hurdsfield |
Area |
Macclesfield, Cheshire, England |
Grid reference |
SJ 926 759
(Scale: 1:25000
, 1986)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Removed |
Materials | Concrete |
Recorder | Harrison, J Peter |
Defence grouping |
Western Command Stop Line No 6 - Tamworth via Trent Valley, E side of Stoke-on-Trent, to Macclesfield and Stockport, thence to 6 miles SE of Manchester. |
Photographs | (1) - view of bridge and block |
DOB site reference: | S0000234 |
Reference |
1996 Anti-invasion defences of WWII |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1998/03/14 |