[103570] Caldon Canal : Consall - Cherryeye Bridge

Cherryeye Bridge 53, Caldon Canal, Consall, Staffordshire, c1779.

Grade ll listed.

 

The Caldon Canal (or the Caldon Branch of the Trent & Mersey Canal) was built to carry limestone from Caldon Low and was completed in 1779. It runs 18 miles from Etruria, in Stoke-on-Trent, to Froghall, Staffordshire. The canal has 17 locks and the 226 ft Froghall Tunnel.

 

By 1811 a further extension from Froghall led to Uttoxeter, a further 13 miles, but only lasted until 1845. By 1849 a railway had been built, some of the track using the former canal bed.

 

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