Monument Type(s):

• FERTILIZER WORKS (Mid 19th century to 20th century (post-war) - 1875 AD to 1989 AD)

Summary

A 19th century and later fertilizer works.

Related records

Associated Finds: None recorded

Associated Events

• ESA5051 - 1994 evaluation of the Montgomery Canal between the River Perry and Aston Upper Lock by SCCAS
• ESA6395 - 1993 field observation of damage to the Montgomery Canal's heritage by G. Deamer

Description

Open space (rough ground) immediately W of a wharf on the Shropshire Union Canal (Montgomeryshire Branch) (927). <1>

Rednall Bone Works. <2><3>

Building, use not indicated. Map indicates probable survival of historic building(s). <4>

Rednall Bone and Manure Works was built adjacent to the basin at Rednall between 1875 and 1900. The factory closed with the disuse of the canal, and despite proposals for its commercial redevelopment was demolished in 1989. In 1986, the basin was developed by British Waterways and the Nature Conservancy Council as a nature reserve for aquatic plants. <5>

Demolished 1989. <6>

Operated until the 1920s. <7>

<01> Ordnance Survey, 1890, OS County Series 19NE, 1890 (Map). SSA9653.

<02> Ordnance Survey, 1902, OS County Series 19NE, 1902 (Map). SSA9657.

<03> Ordnance Survey, 1954, OS SJ32NE, 1954 (Map). SSA9658.

<04> Ordnance Survey, 1979, OS SJ32NE, 1979 (Map). SSA9659.

<05> Hannaford Hugh R, 1994, An archaeological evaluation of the Montgomery Canal between the River Perry and Aston Upper Lock, Site 22 (Field survey report). SSA21046.

<06> Deamer G, 1993, The conservation of the built environment on the Montgomery Canal: a memorandum addressed to the Montgomery Waterway Restoration Trust [draft], p.4 (Deskbased survey report). SSA23414.

<07> Deamer G, 1989, A gazetteer of selected remains along the Llanymynech Branch of the Ellesmere Canal, pp.160-161 (Article in monograph). SSA30542.

Sources

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