Llangollen Canal Willeymoor Lock (That Part in Tushingham Cum Grindley Cp) Wirswall, England
Listed Building Data
Llangollen Canal Willeymoor Lock (That Part in Tushingham Cum Grindley Cp) has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1130568
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 28 August 1985
- Name
- LLANGOLLEN CANAL WILLEYMOOR LOCK (THAT PART IN TUSHINGHAM CUM GRINDLEY CP)
- Location
- LLANGOLLEN CANAL WILLEYMOOR LOCK (THAT PART IN TUSHINGHAM CUM GRINDLEY CP)
- Parish
- Wirswall
- District
- Cheshire East
- Grid Reference
- SJ 53452 45151
- Easting
- 353451.5670
- Northing
- 345150.5529
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
TUSHINGHAM CUM GRINDLEY
1150/3/90 LLANGOLLEN CANAL 28-AUG-85 LLANGOLLEN CANAL WILLEYMOOR LOCK (THAT PART IN TUSHINGHAM CUM GRINDLEY CP) (Formerly listed as: LLANGOLLEN CANAL LLANGOLLEN CANAL WILLEY MOOR LOCK (THA T PART IN TUSHINGHAM CUM GRINDLEY))
II TUSHINGHAM CUM GRINDLEY C.P. LLANGOLLEN CANAL SJ 54 NW 5345 4516 3/90 Willeymoor Lock (that part in Tushingham cum Grindley CP). GV II
Canal lock, c.1800, William Jessop and Thomas Telford as engineers, slightly altered, brick with stone copings (copings replaced in concrete to east edge of lock basin), single upper and double lower timber gates. Original brick-lined spillway to east side. Mid-C20 footbridge to north of lower gates is not of special interest. Eastern half of lock in Wirswall parish with separate list entry.
HISTORY: The 46-mile long Llangollen Canal was designed by William Jessop and Thomas Telford in 1793-1805 and originally formed the central section of the Ellesmere Canal, which later became part of the Shropshire Union Canal network. Willeymoor Lock was constructed in c.1800.
SOURCES: Wilson E. 1975. The Ellesmere & Llangollen Canal - An Historical Background.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: Willeymoor Lock (that part in Tushingham cum Grindley CP) is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
- It was constructed at the height of the Canal Age and represents the transport revolution taking place within Britain at that time It was designed and constructed by two of the country's foremost late-C18/early-C19 civil engineers, William Jessop and Thomas Telford The lock is well preserved with only minor repairs and alterations * It has group value with an adjacent Grade II listed contemporary small canal stable building
Listing NGR: SJ5345645152
