NOTES: Work on this canal began at Bollington in 1826 and was completed at Hall Green in 1831. Its route was surveyed by Thomas Telford and its construction was engineered by William Crosley. The bridge was designed by the engineer Thomas Brown and was completed in 1828.
SOURCE: John Aikin. A description of the country from thirty to forty miles round Manchester (London, 1795), before p. 113 NOTES: This bridge was part of an aqueduct which allowed a network of canals to be carried across roads and streams.
NOTES: The construction of the aqueduct follows the principles laid out by Vitruvius as he describes in his De Architectura published in the mid-first century