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| Sedgwick Aqueduct, Lancaster Canal | ||
| Sedgwick Aqueduct | ||
| site name:- | Lancaster Canal | |
| locality:- | Sedgwick | |
| civil parish:- | Sedgwick (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | canal aqueduct | |
| locality type:- | aqueduct | |
| coordinates:- | SD51358702 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD5187 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD58 | |
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 BJS32.jpg (taken 12.8.2005)  BJS33.jpg From above; no water. (taken 12.8.2005) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles
to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805. CY24SD58.jpg road across a stream; bridge over the Lancaster Canal item:- JandMN : 129 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "LANCASTER KENDAL CANAL,SEDGWICK AQUEDUCT, LANCASTER/KENDAL CANAL / / / SEDGWICK / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76462 / SD5134887027" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Aqueduct. 1818, by John Fletcher, engineer. Squared coursed limestone with limestone ashlar dressings, limestone string and copings to parapet. Tunnel over roadway, at angle to direction of Canal, has segmental arched opening with rusticated voussoirs and keystone, flanked by rusticated tapering pilasters curved in section. Blank panel probably intended for inscription above. Massive curved retaining walls with flight of stone steps behind that to North West. Scheduled Ancient Monument." |
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 BNQ14.jpg Cut bench mark with a plug. (taken 13.5.2007)  BXD31.jpg (taken 15.8.2012) |
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| notes:- |
Built by John Rennie, 1817-19. The planned canal followed a line to the east of Sedgwick,
as the railway does now. A revised line served Sedgwick Gunpowder Mills, and necessitated
Hincaster Tunnel and this aqueduct. |
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