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Sustainability Group, Shropshire County Council

PRN 19281



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Bridge No 63 (Betton Road Bridge) SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL


Description:  Canal bridge. Circa 1830. Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton, engineers. Dressed red sandstone with tooled dressings. Elliptical skew arch with voussoirs and raised keystones. Humped-back shape with string course and parapet with square end piers and rounded coping. Slightly battered and curved abutments. Cast-iron corner posts on towpath side with grooves caused by rope haulage. Oval cast-iron number plate to south. This stretch of canal was built as part of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal (Act passed 1826, opened 1835), which was absorbed by the Ellesmere and Chester Canal in 1845, and eventually became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands, pp 183-9 <1>

Country:  England

County:  Shropshire

Parish:  Market Drayton

Grid Reference:   SJ683346

Map Reference:  [EPSG:27700] 368300, 334600

Period/Subject:  POST MEDIEVAL - CANAL BRIDGE

Identifiers: 
[ADS] Depositor Id: PRN 19281
[ADS] Import RCN: SALOPSMR-960

People Involved: 
[Publisher] Sustainability Group, Shropshire County Council

Bibliographic References: 

  • &lt;01&gt; Department of the Environment (1987) 43rd List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, p58