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© Dr Neil Bentham
IoE Number:
267856
Location:
AQUEDUCT AT THE GROVE, SPRINGERS HILL (north side)
COLEFORD, MENDIP, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Dr Neil Bentham
Date Photographed:
25 January 2003
Date listed:
10 June 1975
Date of last amendment:
25 June 1986
Grade
II
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COLEFORD CP SPRINGERS HILL (North side)
ST64NE
9/73 Former Aqueduct at NGR ST 6847
4874
(previously listed as Aqueduct at
The Grove)
10.6.75
- II
Aqueduct. 1800-1801 for Dorset and Somerset Canal. Coursed masonry blocks with furrowed dressings, much of the ashlar
robbed. Two semi-circular arches approx 10m wide and slightly less in height, approach abutments with curved revetment
walls splayed back from each side of the bed of the former canal, parapets/canal trough/tow path missing, arches with
keys, masonry coursed right through; masonry mostly survives on north-east and south-west revetments, one pilaster
buttress on the former, 2 on the latter. Crosses a pathway/drive and a stream. The Dorset and Somerset Canal was
intended to link the Kennet and Avon Canal to the River Stour in Dorset (Act of Parliament 1796). This section carried
the canal down the valley from the Nettlebridge collieries. Canal abandoned 1803 through lack of finance. Inscribed
stone, possibly from the aqueduct believed to survive at the village of Chantry, inscribed:- "Aqueduct Ere Anno 1801".
The whole structure is in a poor state of repair (June 1985). (Clew K.R., The Dorset and Somerset Canal, 1971).