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Description: Aqueduct carrying canal over Luddenden Brook

Address: Aqueduct Over Luddenden Brook Rochdale Canal Between Hebden Bridge & Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: Rochdale Canal, Luddenden Foot

Full description:
Canal aqueduct. c1798. For the Rochdale Canal Company. Coursed squared stone. Aqueduct carries canal and a C20 pavement, which replaces the original towing path, over Luddenden Brook. 3 low segmental arches carried on rounded piers. Band. Walling above has 4 pilaster buttresses and band below parapet with chamfered coping, raised slightly above buttresses. Wall curves around on north-east side and has flat coping. For history of canal construction see Sowerby Long Bridge (SB12/177).