Toll House on the Shropshire Union Canal at The National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port

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Toll House on the Shropshire Union Canal at The National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port
Toll House on the Shropshire Union Canal at The National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port

A visit to the National Waterways Museum Ellesmere Port in Cheshire.


The National Waterways Museum (NWM) is in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, at the northern end of the Shropshire Union Canal where it meets the Manchester Ship Canal). The NWM's collections and archives focus on the Britain's navigable inland waterways, including its rivers and canals, and include canal boats, traditional clothing, painted canal decorative ware and tools. It is one of several museums and attractions operated by the Canal & River Trust, the successor to The Waterways Trust.


The Shropshire Union Canal. Near the cafe outdoor seating area, also near where you could get a half hour narrowboat ride down the canal which we did.

It was originally the Wirral Branch of the Ellesmere Canal.


First thing on arrival it was a bit misty, but it soon cleared up.


Whitby Top Narrow Lock


Toll House

Grade II Listed Building

Toll House

Description

ELLESMERE PORT & NESTON DOCKS BASIN
SJ 4077
7/15 Toll House (formerly
listed as Ellesmere
26.11.75 Port Docks)
GV II
Early C19, Thomas Telford, engineer; 2-storey and basement 5-window brick
building with 2 symmetrically placed chimneys on east side and wide-eaved
hipped slate roof. Sandstone cill bands. Camber arches to basement windows
(east), stone lintels to ground floor. Recessed small-pane sashes. Pedimented
door pieces in symmetrical south and north ends. Typical of Telford's detail-
ing and proportions for his road toll houses and small canal buildings.
Original doors and windows restored 1983.


Listing NGR: SJ4055877204

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