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© Mr F. Bryan Basketter LRPS
IoE Number:
212835
Location:
BRIDGEWATER CANAL AQUEDUCT AND ADJOINING BRIDGE 1/4 MILE SOUTH OF WOODHOUSE LANE AQUEDUCT,
DUNHAM MASSEY, TRAFFORD, GREATER MANCHESTER
Photographer:
Mr F. Bryan Basketter LRPS
Date Photographed:
28 September 1999
Date listed:
12 July 1985
Date of last amendment:
12 July 1985
Grade
II
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SJ 78 NW DUNHAM MASSEY BRIDGEWATER CANAL
6/74 Aqueduct and
adjoining bridge
1/4 mile south
of Woodhouse
Lane Aqueduct
G.V. II
Aqueduct on the Bridgewater Canal passing over the River
Bollin some 10 m. below. Canal opened 1776, John Gilbert
engineer. Ashlar and English garden wall bond brick. The
aqueduct is flanked on the west by a road bridge over the
Bollin. Both the bridge and the aqueduct have retaining
walls and parapet walls which are segmental in plan. Each
has a segmental ashlar keystone arch and band, 2 stone
bands, brick parapet walls and stone copings. The aqueduct
wall is battered and has been considerably replaced by
concrete on the east side.