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 aqueduct in England.[2] It crosses a minor road, the Birmingham and North Warwickshire railway and also 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.
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Edstone Aqueduct, Bearley
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Edstone Aqueduct From South. Bearley Lock in the distance. April 2012
The aqueduct is a Grade II* listed structure. [3]
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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.
- ↑ "Name: AQUEDUCT, STRATFORD ON AVON CANAL (THAT PART IN ASTON CANTLOW CP) List entry Number: 1024550". Historic England. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
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Coordinates: 52°14′47″N 1°45′51″W / 52.2464°N 1.7641°W
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