Tettenhall Old Bridge Over Staffordshire And Worcestershire Canal

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO89NE MEADOW VIEW 895-1/4/89 (South side) Tettenhall Old Bridge over Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal

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Canal bridge. 1770s; later widening to south, before 1820. By Brindley, Simcock and Dadford, engineers. Brick with stone dressings. Segmental arch on stone springers with keystone; straight parapets with replaced coping; end piers; oval iron plaque to north with lettering: TETTENHALL/ OLD BRIDGE, AND NUMBER: 61. Bridge carried main Holyhead road until re-routed by T.Telford in 1820s, now Tettenhall Road and The Rock.

Listing NGR: SO8919499906

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1018 IOE Records taken by John M Holt; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr John M Holt. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project