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Chetwynd Bridge
Chetwynd Bridge (also known as Salter's Bridge) is a three-arch cast-iron bridge in Staffordshire, England. It carries the A513 road over the River Tame between Edingale and Alrewas in Staffordshire, England. It was completed in 1824 and is a Grade II* listed building. Design The bridge was built in 1824. It has three segmental arches spanning the river, supported by rusticated ashlar pillars. The spandrels (the space between the arch and the bridge deck) have decorative X-shaped latticework. The abutments sweep round to form buttresses; the intermediate piers are in a similar style. The two outside spans are wide and the central span is . The bridge is oriented roughly north–south and the northernmost span is over dry land.Cragg, p. 86. The bridge was designed by Joseph Potter, a local architect and builder and the county surveyor for Staffordshire. Potter likely learnt to build with cast iron while working under Thomas Telford, including on the Harecastle Tunnel. The bridg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A513 Road
List of A roads in zone 5 in Great Britain starting north/east of the A5, west of the A6, south of the Solway Firth/Eden Estuary The River Eden is a river in Fife in Scotland, and is one of Fife's two principal rivers, along with the Leven. It is nearly long and has a fall of around . Course The source of the Eden is either at the confluence of the two burns (streams ... (roads beginning with 5). Single- and double-digit roads Three-digit roads Four-digit roads (50xx) Four-digit roads (51xx) Four-digit roads (52xx) Four-digit roads (53xx to 57xx) References {{DEFAULTSORT:A Roads In Zone 5 Of The Great Britain Numbering Scheme 5 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harecastle Tunnel
Harecastle Tunnel is a canal tunnel on the Trent and Mersey Canal in Staffordshire between Kidsgrove and Tunstall. The tunnel, which is long, was once one of the longest in the country. Its industrial purpose was for the transport of coal to the kilns in the Staffordshire Potteries. The canal runs under the Harecastle Hill near Goldenhill, the highest district in Stoke-on-Trent.'Tunstall', in'' A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 8'', ed. J G Jenkins (London, 1963), pp. 81-104. British History Online, accessed 21 September 2016. Although described singularly as a tunnel, Harecastle is actually two separate but parallel tunnels built almost 50 years apart. The first was constructed by |
Grade II* Listed Buildings In Staffordshire
The county of Staffordshire is divided into nine districts: Tamworth, Lichfield, Cannock Chase, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire Moorlands, East Staffordshire, and Stoke-on-Trent. As there are many Grade II* listed buildings in the county they have been split into separate lists for each district. * Grade II* listed buildings in Cannock Chase (district) * Grade II* listed buildings in East Staffordshire * Grade II* listed buildings in Lichfield (district) * Grade II* listed buildings in Newcastle-under-Lyme (borough) * Grade II* listed buildings in South Staffordshire * Grade II* listed buildings in Stafford (borough) * Grade II* listed buildings in Staffordshire Moorlands * Grade II* listed buildings in Stoke-on-Trent * Grade II* listed buildings in Tamworth (borough) See also * Grade I listed buildings in Staffordshire * :Grade II* listed buildings in Staffordshire ReferencesNational Heritage List for England {{DEFAULTSORT:Grade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grade II* Listed Bridges In England
Grade most commonly refers to: * Grading in education, a measurement of a student's performance by educational assessment (e.g. A, pass, etc.) * A designation for students, classes and curricula indicating the number of the year a student has reached in a given educational stage (e.g. first grade, second grade, K–12, etc.) * Grade (slope), the steepness of a slope * Graded voting Grade or grading may also refer to: Music * Grade (music), a formally assessed level of profiency in a musical instrument * Grade (band), punk rock band * Grades (producer), British electronic dance music producer and DJ Science and technology Biology and medicine * Grading (tumors), a measure of the aggressiveness of a tumor in medicine * The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach * Evolutionary grade, a paraphyletic group of organisms Geology * Graded bedding, a description of the variation in grain size through a bed in a sedimentary rock * Metamorphic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cast-iron Arch Bridges In England
Cast iron is a class of iron–carbon alloys with a carbon content of more than 2% and silicon content around 1–3%. Its usefulness derives from its relatively low melting temperature. The alloying elements determine the form in which its carbon appears: Cast iron#White cast iron, white cast iron has its carbon combined into an iron carbide named cementite, which is very hard, but brittle, as it allows cracks to pass straight through; Grey iron, grey cast iron has graphite flakes which deflect a passing crack and initiate countless new cracks as the material breaks, and Ductile iron, ductile cast iron has spherical graphite "nodules" which stop the crack from further progressing. Carbon (C), ranging from 1.8 to 4 wt%, and silicon (Si), 1–3 wt%, are the main alloying elements of cast iron. Iron alloys with lower carbon content are known as steel. Cast iron tends to be brittle, except for malleable iron, malleable cast irons. With its relatively low melting point, g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listed Buildings In Edingale
Edingale is a civil parish in the district of Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. It contains 19 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, three are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Edingale and the settlement of Croxall, and is otherwise rural. The listed buildings include two churches, memorials in one of the churchyards, a large house with an associated dovecote, smaller houses, cottages, farmhouses and farm buildings, the earliest of which are timber framed Timber framing () and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs. If the struc ..., and a bridge. __NOTOC__ Key Buildings References Citations Sources * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grade II* Listed Buildings In Lichfield (district)
There are over 20,000 Grade II* listed buildings in England. This page is a list of these buildings in the district of Lichfield in Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation ''Staffs''.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, .... Lichfield Notes External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Lichfield Lists of Grade II* listed buildings in Staffordshire * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chartered Institution Of Highways And Transportation
The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT, formerly the Institution of Highways and Transportation) is a British learned society for the planning, design, construction, maintenance and operation of land-based transport systems and infrastructure. The CIHT offers routes to qualifications such as Chartered and Incorporated Engineer status and also Chartered transport planning professional. Additionally, it has 12 regional UK branches and several overseas branches that all run local events and technical meetings. The CIHT is a board-governed professional body. The main aims of the Council and Boards are to act as the decision-making bodies for the CIHT and deliver the strategy, business plans and outputs on behalf of the membership. The CIHT is a member of the Construction Industry Council. History and chartered status The history of the Institution of Highways and Transportation began in 1930 when it was simply called the Institution of Highway Engineers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amey Plc
Amey plc, previously known as Amey Ltd and Amey Roadstone Construction, is a British engineering company that specializes in infrastructure support services. Amey was founded by William Charles Amey in 1921. The firm grew rapidly during the Second World War via government infrastructure contracts. In 1959, it was contracted to supply gravel for the construction of the M1 motorway. During 1963, Amey was listed for the first time on the London Stock Exchange. Between 1972 and 1989, the company was owned by Consolidated Gold Fields. In 1995, Amey was refloated on the London Stock Exchange. Around this time, management decided to orientate the company towards support services delivery activities. In April 2003, Amey was acquired by the Spanish infrastructure services company Ferrovial. During the early 21st century, Amey diversified into various market sectors, including criminal justice and railways. Between 2003 and May 2010, the company jointly operated the Tube Lines consortiu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heritage At Risk Register
An annual ''Heritage at Risk Register'' is published by Historic England. The survey is used by national and local government, a wide range of individuals and heritage groups to establish the extent of risk and to help assess priorities for action and funding decisions. This heritage-at-risk data is one of the UK government's official statistics. ''Heritage at risk'' is term for cultural heritage assets that are at risk as a result of neglect, decay, or inappropriate development; or are vulnerable to becoming so. England's ''Heritage at Risk Register'' The ''Heritage at Risk Register'' covers: * Grade I and II* listed buildings (the baseline register is 1999); Grade II listed buildings in London only (the baseline register is 1991) * Structural scheduled monuments (base year is 1999) and scheduled monuments (base year is 2009) * Registered parks and gardens (base year is 2009) * Registered historic battlefields (base year is 2008) * Protected wreck sites * Conservation areas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mavesyn Ridware
Mavesyn Ridware is a village and civil parish in Lichfield District, Staffordshire, England. The parish had a population of 1,048 in 2001, increasing to 1,128 at the 2011 Census. It includes the villages of Hill Ridware, Rake End, Pipe Ridware and Blithbury, all of which lie between the River Trent and a small tributary, the River Blithe. To the east is the parish of Hamstall Ridware and to the south the larger village of Armitage. Heritage Mavesyn Ridware contains two notable buildings: the parish church dedicated to St Nicholas and the Gatehouse of the erstwhile Manor House. The name "Mavesyn" derives from the French ''Malvoisin'', which was the name of the Norman family that acquired the estate after the Norman Conquest of 1066. The church contains many monuments to members of that family and to their successors as lords of the manor, the Cawardens and the Chadwicks. The Gatehouse is timber framed with a later skin of brick and stone. Growth rings on the timbers indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Trent
The Trent is the third Longest rivers of the United Kingdom, longest river in the United Kingdom. Its Source (river or stream), source is in Staffordshire, on the southern edge of Biddulph Moor. It flows through and drains the North Midlands into the Humber Estuary. The river is known for dramatic flooding after storms and spring snowmelt, which in the past often caused the river to change course. The river passes through Stoke-on-Trent, Stone, Staffordshire, Rugeley, Burton-upon-Trent and Nottingham before joining the River Ouse, Yorkshire at Trent Falls to form the Humber Estuary, which empties into the North Sea between Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire and Immingham in Lincolnshire. The wide Humber estuary has often been described as the boundary between the Midlands and the north of England. Name The name "Trent" is possibly from a Romano-British word meaning "strongly flooding". More specifically, the name may be a contraction of two Romano-British words, ''tros'' ("over" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
