Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,669 pages of information and 247,074 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Trent Aqueduct

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at Great Haywood, Stafford

This is a four arch masonry aqueduct, built by James Brindley c.1772 to take the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal over the River Trent.[1]

It was built on dry land, and the river was then diverted to flow under it.

See also Milford Aqueduct.

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. Civil Engineering Heritage - West Midlands by Roger Cragg, Phillimore & Co, 2010