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March Barn Bridge is a stone arch bridge carrying a lane over the Rochdale Canal in Lancashire, England. The bridge dates from the late eighteenth century, constructed during the initial development and completion of the Rochdale Canal between 1766 and 1804. It represents typical industrial canal infrastructure of the period, built to maintain local land communication whilst accommodating the new waterway. The bridge survives as evidence of the engineering and construction practices employed in the early canal age, when such structures were integral to the integration of canal transport with the existing landscape.
March Barn Bridge, Rochdale Canal is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1005559. View the official record →
March Barn Bridge is a stone arch bridge carrying a lane over the Rochdale Canal in Lancashire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1005559.
March Barn Bridge, Rochdale Canal 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 1005559.
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of March Barn Bridge, Rochdale Canal'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.
March Barn Bridge, Rochdale Canal stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.