Hateley Heath Aqueduct
BCN - Tame Valley Canal
BCN - Tame Valley Canal
This Grade two listed aqueduct was built as part of the Tame Valley Canal, carrying the elevated canal over Hydes Road in Wednesbury.
Hateley Heath Aqueduct - south profile
Hateley Heath Aqueduct - north profile
It comprises a sectional cast iron trough supported on girders notched into brick abutments. The cast iron panels have some rather fine profiling cast into them, and are bolted together across the sides and the bed of the aqueduct.
Whilst the brick abutments are weeping in places, there is very little evidence of leakage in the main trough.
Thoroughly utilitarian but not without interesting detailing. Easily mistaken for a railway bridge.
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