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A 1.43km length of the Ellesmere Canal and associated features at Chirk Bank is a scheduled ancient monument comprising a significant stretch of this important eighteenth-century waterway in Shropshire. The canal was constructed as part of the Ellesmere Canal system, which was engineered to connect the Cheshire salt industry with the Midlands manufacturing centres and was begun in the 1790s. This particular section at Chirk Bank preserves elements of the canal's original infrastructure dating from the late Georgian period. The monument represents a key example of late eighteenth-century canal engineering and its associated hydraulic structures, which facilitated the transport of goods during the early Industrial Revolution.
A 1.43km length of the Ellesmere Canal and associated features at Chirk Bank is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021433. View the official record →
A 1.43km length of the Ellesmere Canal and associated features at Chirk Bank is a scheduled ancient monument comprising a significant stretch of this important eighteenth-century waterway in Shropshire.
A 1.43km length of the Ellesmere Canal and associated features at Chirk Bank is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1021433.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Wat's Dyke:80m long section and adjacent cultivation terraces 540m east of Oswestry Castle (7.2 km), Oswestry Castle: motte and adjoining section of the town wall immediately north east of Christ Church (7.3 km), Wat's Dyke: 375m long section immediately south of Middleton Road and west of Laburnum Drive (7.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of A 1.43km length of the Ellesmere Canal and associated features at Chirk Bank's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
A 1.43km length of the Ellesmere Canal and associated features at Chirk Bank stands on Pennine Middle Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Middle Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.