Listed Buildings in Stoke-on-Trent. (10015a) Canal Milepost North of Limekiln Bridge No. 105, Trent & Mersey Canal

Listed Buildings in Stoke-on-Trent and area

Canal Milepost North of Limekiln Bridge No. 105, Trent & Mersey Canal

Area Hanley	Street Trent & Mersey Canal	Heritage No. 10015 A	Grade II	Date Listed 10 February 1995
Building: Canal Milepost
Location: STOKE-ON-TRENT, North of Limekiln No. 105, Trent & Mersey Canal (West Side)
Description: Canal milepost. Circa 1819. Cast iron painted black and white.

Canal milepost. Circa 1819. Cast iron painted black and white.

Circular post moulded head and embossed letters on two convex tablets below. “Shardlow 52 miles” “Preston Brook 40 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)

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