Edstone Aqueduct

Stratford Canal Aqueducts
28-33
 Locks (6)
 Yarningale Aqueduct
34-35
 Locks (2)
36-38
 Preston Bagot Locks (3)
47a
  A4189  Warwick Road bridge
  A3400  Wootton Wawen Aqueduct
39
 Bearley Lock
 Edstone Aqueduct (145m)
40-50
 Wilmcote Locks (11)

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.

Edstone Aqueduct, Bearley
Edstone Aqueduct From South. Bearley Lock in the distance. April 2012

The aqueduct is a Grade II* listed structure.[3]

See also

References
  1. Ware (1989). Britain’s Lost Waterways. Moorland Publishing Co Ltd. p. 28,29.
  2. 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.
  3. 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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