Listed Buildings in Stoke-on-Trent. (10011a) Canal Milepost at Lock 37, Trent & Mersey Canal

Listed Buildings in Stoke-on-Trent and area

Canal Milepost at Lock 37, Trent & Mersey Canal

Area Hanley	Street Trent & Mersey Canal	Heritage No. 10011 A	Grade II	Date Listed 10 February 1995
Building: Canal Milepost
Location: STOKE-ON-TRENT lock 37, Trent & Mersey Canal (West Side)
Description: Canal milepost. Circa 1819. Cast iron painted black and white.

Canal Mile post at lock 37
“Shardlow 56 miles” “Preston Brook 36 miles”.

Canal Mile post at lock 37

Canal milepost. Circa 1819. Cast iron painted black and white.

Circular post moulded head and embossed letters on two convex tablets below. “Shardlow 56 miles” “Preston Brook 36 miles”.

Probably cast in the foundry of Rangeley and Dixon in Lichfield Street, Stone*.

The Trent & Mersey Canal was built between 1766 and 1777 by James Brindley and Hugh Henshall.

Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands (1966)
*Jean Lindsay, The Trent & Mersey Canal (1979)

lock 37 on the Trent and Mersey Canal

photos: Steve Birks June 2008

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