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Canal Milepost near Whieldon Road, Trent & Mersey Canal


Area
Stoke
Street
Trent & Mersey Canal
Heritage No.
10017 A
Grade
II
Date Listed
10 February 1995
Building: Canal Milepost
Location: STOKE-ON-TRENT, SJ 8811 4472,  near Whieldon Road, Trent & Mersey Canal (West Side)
Description:  Canal milepost. Circa 1819. Cast iron painted black and white.


Canal Mile post near Whieldon Road
“Shardlow 55 miles”  “Preston Brook 37 miles”.

Canal Mile post near Whieldon Road


Canal milepost. Dated “R & D Stone 1819” on shaft. Cast iron painted black and white. Circular post moulded head and embossed letters on two convex tablets below. “Shardlow 55 miles”  “Preston Brook 37 miles”.

Probably cast in the foundry of Rangeley and Dixon in Lichfield Street, Stone*.

The Trent & Mersey Canal was built between 1766 and 1777 by James Brindley and Hugh Henshall.

 Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands (1966)
*Jean Lindsay, The Trent & Mersey Canal (1979)


Trent and Mersey Canal - Whieldon Road
Trent and Mersey Canal - Whieldon Road

photos: Steve Birks  June 2008


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