Edstone Aqueduct
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Edstone Aqueduct is one of three aqueducts on a 4 miles (6 km) length of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal in Warwickshire. All are unusual in that the towpaths are at the level of the canal bottom. At 475 feet (145 m),[1] Edstone is the longest cast iron aqueduct in England.[2] It crosses a minor road, the Birmingham and North Warwickshire railway and the trackbed of the former Alcester Railway. There was once a pipe from the side of the canal that enabled locomotives to draw water to fill their tanks.
The aqueduct is a Grade II* listed structure.[3]
See also
References
- ^ Ware (1989). Britain’s Lost Waterways. Moorland Publishing Co Ltd. p. 28,29.
- ^ Skempton, Sir Alec (2002). A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: Vol 1: 1500 to 1830. Thomas Telford. p. 357. ISBN 0-7277-2939-X.
- ^ Historic England. "AQUEDUCT, STRATFORD ON AVON CANAL (THAT PART IN ASTON CANTLOW CP) (1024550)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
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