| HER Number (PRN): | 01020 |
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| Name: | Wooden Lifting Bridge at Brickwalls, Ellesmere Canal |
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| Type of Record: | Monument |
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Protected Status: | None recorded |
Monument Type(s):
Summary
About 2.5 miles south of Whitchurch, on the Ellesmere Canal is a timber lift bridge called Brickwalls Canal Bridge. A overhead gantry lifts the bridge with the assistance of a counterweight when a chain is pulled. As all the timber in the structure has been replaced at fairly frequent intervals it is difficult to establish the date of its origin, though this would probably be soon after 1800, when the canal was built.
| Parish: | Whitchurch Urban, North Shropshire, Shropshire |
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| Map Sheet: | SJ53NW |
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| Grid Reference: | SJ 5126 3777 |
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Related records
| 03414 | Related to: Ellesmere Canal (Monument) |
Associated Finds: None recorded
Associated Events: None recorded
Description
This is a timber lift bridge, where an overhead gantry lifts the bridge with the assistance of a counterweight when a chain is pulled. It presumably dates to about 1804 when work on this length of the canal (SA 3414) reached Tilstock Park. The similar Stark's bridge (SA 1009) is more complicated because it crosses the canal at a skew angle. There were 12 such bridges on the Llangollen Canal, of which five are in Shropshire. There are very few wooden lifting bridges left nationally. They are features of narrow canals in flat country <2>
Descheduled 22/01/1998. <7>
Sources
| [00] | SSA20722 - Card index: Shropshire County Council SMR. Site and Monuments Record (SMR) cards. SMR record cards. SMR Card for PRN SA 01020. |
| [01] | SSA3703 - Field Monument Warden Report: Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission (HBMC). 1987-May-11. Scheduled Monument Report on SAM 32459 (11/05/1987). |
| [02] | SSA3700 - TEXT: Ryan Carole. 1985. Recommendations for the Reconstruction of the Bridge. |
| [03] | SSA3701 - Photograph: Wailes R. Photo. |
| [04] | SSA3702 - Scheduled Monument notification: Department of the Environment (DoE). 1973. Map of Scheduled area, 1973. |
| [05] | SSA3699 - Correspondence: Various. 1985/ 1986. Correspondence, 1985-1986. |
| [06] | SSA5174 - Monograph: Blackwall A. 1985. Historic Bridges of Shropshire. p58. |
| [07] | SSA30361 - Scheduled Monument notification: English Heritage. 1998. Scheduling Papers (Descheduling, 22/01/1998). Salop 294/ 91173. |
| Date Last Edited: | Apr 21 2021 2:32PM |
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