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Reference Number
14215
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/04/1993
Date of Amendment
05/04/1993
Name of Property
Carreghofa Aqueduct parallel to the Public Road 700m West of Llanymynech
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Carreghofa
Town
Locality
Wern
Easting
325940
Northing
320686
Street Side
Location
Half-a-mile west of Llanymynech midway between canal bridges 94 (Wern Bridge) and 93 (Walls Bridge); lies parallel to B4398.
Description
Broad Class
Water Supply and Drainage
Period
History
Aqueduct inserted between 1866 and 1870 into the Llanymynech branch of the Ellesmere Canal (opened 1797) when the long cutting for the Potteries, Shrewsbury North Wales Railway was constructed.
Exterior
The canal is carried in a riveted metal-plated trough with canted sides supported by timber-capped longitudinal girders with triangular braces. Beneath are trabeated cast-iron supports running down the centre of the former double trackway; single and paired uprights with cross-brackets and flanged bases bolted to masonry piers.
Splayed bull-faced masonry abutment with ramped outer wall with stone cappings. Vertical joint divides aqueduct from brickwork of abutting road bridge. To the north are the remains of the canal approaches to a temporary aqueduct dismantled after the construction works.
Interior
Reason for designation
An exceptional, small-scale example of ironwork canal trough.
S Hughes, Archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal, RCAHM (Wales) 1988, 157
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