Canal aqueduct over a footpath
Introduction
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Canal aqueduct over a footpath
Image: © Richard Law Taken: 11 Oct 2021
The aqueduct is now a bridge carrying the Silkin Way footpath. But it was originally built around 1788 as an Accommodation Bridge, to take the Shropshire Canal Navigation (a tub-boat canal) over a track; the canal was subsequently converted in the late 1850s to the Coalport Branch Line of the London & North West Railway, which then closed in 1960 and is now the Silkin Way. The bridge was Grade II listed https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101377111-canal-aqueduct-at-national-grid-reference-695-057-dawley-hamlets#.YWXfLxrMLIU & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1377111 in 1993, and restored in 2001.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.647757
Longitude
-2.452194