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Description: Ellen Royd Bridge

Address: Ellen Royd Bridge Rochdale Canal Between Hebden Bridge & Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: Rochdale Canal, Upper Foot, Luddenden Foot

Full description:
Canal bridge. c1798. For the Rochdale Canal Company. Coursed squared stone and ashlar. Horseshoe arch; ashlar band below parapet with triangular section ashlar coping. To either side of arch are pilaster buttresses with bands, rising as ashlar piers at parapet level and with coping raised and pyramidal above them. Under the bridge the canal walls curve inwards. For history of canal construction see Sowerby Long Bridge (SB12/177).