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© Mr Simon Mack
IoE Number:
310949
Location:
WOLFHALL FIELDS BRIDGE AND CROFTON TOP LOCK AT SU 249623,
GREAT BEDWYN, KENNET, WILTSHIRE
Photographer:
Mr Simon Mack
Date Photographed:
20 August 2000
Date listed:
15 November 1990
Date of last amendment:
15 November 1990
Grade
II
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GRAFTON KENNET & AVON CANAL
SU 26SW
4/70
Wolfhall Fields
Bridge and
Crofton Top Lock
at SU 249623
- II
Accommodation bridge and integral lock. Early C19, C20 alterations. Rennie's standard
design. Brick bridge with stile ellipital arch, band, solid parapet and piers, with
stone coping. Integral brick lock walls to W. Lock has brick chamber with brick coping.
2 sets of double wooden gates, top gates with mechanical ground paddle gearing, bottom
gates with hydraulic gate paddle gearing. The Kennet & Avon Canal was constructed
between 1794-1810. John Rennie was principal engineer.