Listed Buildings in Stoke-on-Trent. (10021a) Canal Milepost North of Longton Road, Trent & Mersey Canal

Listed Buildings in Stoke-on-Trent and area

Canal Milepost North of Longton Road, Trent & Mersey Canal

Area Hanley	Street Trent & Mersey Canal	Heritage No. 10021 A	Grade II	Date Listed 20 July 1995
Building: Canal Milepost
Location: STOKE-ON-TRENT, SJ 8800 4165, North of Longton Road, 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 53 miles” “Preston Brook 39 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)