Information for record number MWA4334:
Yarningale Aqueduct

Summary Yarningale Aquaduct, a bridge carrying canal water, and dating from the Imperial period. It is located 400m north west of Yarningale Common, Rowington.
What Is It?  
Type: Canal, Aqueduct
Period: Imperial - Industrial (1751 AD - 1913 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Rowington
District: Warwick, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 18 66
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Listed Building (Grade: II*)
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 The iron trough, supplied by the Horseley Iron Co in 1834, replaced the original aqueduct after a burst on the Warwick and Birmingham Canal flooded a small stream which ran under the aqueduct at Yarningale, and washed it down, so closing the Canal.
2 No access to this site.
3 It can be reached by a footpath off the land from Lowsonford to Preston Bagot, but is best approached down the towpath from Lowsonford past lock 32 and past lock 33 to the crossing.
4 The aqueduct is 42ft long.
5 The smallest of the three cast iron aqueducts on the southern sectionof the Straford Canal and, unusually, situated immediately adjacent to a lock. Structurally identical to Wootton Wawen and Bearley aqueducts with a cast iron trough. Ironwork by Horseley Company. Dates from 1834, built to replace an earlier aqueduct destroyed in a flood.
6 Photo of aqueduct.
 
Sources

Source No: 4
Source Type: Digital Data
Title: WIAS - Retort! Bulletin issues 1 (1993)-10 (2000)
Author/originator: Warwickshire Industrial Archaeology Society
Date:
Page Number: 006
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Source No: 5
Source Type: Digital Data
Title: WIAS Sites Database - Industry
Author/originator: Warwickshire Industrial Archaeology Society
Date:
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Source No: 6
Source Type: Internet Data
Title: The Stratford-on-Avon Canal website
Author/originator:
Date: 2018
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Source No: 3
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Waterways to Stratford
Author/originator: Hadfield C & Norris J
Date: 1984
Page Number: 64
Volume/Sheet:
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: SMR Card
Author/originator: Kilburn C D
Date: 1984
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: PRN 4385
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Waterways to Stratford
Author/originator: Hadfield C & Norris J
Date: 1984
Page Number: 64
Volume/Sheet:
   
Images:  
Yarningale Aqueduct near Rowington
Copyright: Warwickshire County Council
Date: 2002
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Yarningale Aqueduct near Rowington
Copyright: Warwickshire County Council
Date: 2002
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Glossary

 
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designation Listed Building Buildings and structures, such as bridges, that are of architectural or historical importance are placed on a statutory list. These buildings are protected by planning and conservation acts that ensure that their special features of interest are considered before any alterations are made to them.

Depending on how important the buildings are they are classed as Grade I, Grade II* or Grade II. Grade I buildings are those of exceptional interest. Grade II* are particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Those listed as Grade II are those buildings that are regarded of special interest.
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source SMR Card Sites and Monuments Record Card. The Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record began to be developed during the 1970s. The details of individual archaeological sites and findspots were written on record cards. These record cards were used until the 1990s, when their details were entered on to a computerised system. The record cards are still kept at the office of the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
period Imperial 1751 AD to 1914 AD (end of the 18th century AD to the beginning of the 20th century AD)

This period comes after the Post Medieval period and before the modern period and starts with beginning of the Industrial Revolution in 1750. It includes the second part of the Hannoverian period (1714 – 1836) and the Victorian period (1837 – 1901). The Imperial period ends with the start of the First World War in 1914.
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monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument LOCK * A section of the water channel on a canal or river shut off above and below by lock gates provided with sluices to let the water out and in, and thus raise or lower boats from one level to another. Use more specific type where known. back
monument TROUGH * A narrow, open container, usually where food or water for animals is put. Use specific type where known. back
monument CANAL * An artificial navigable waterway used for the transportation of goods. Nowadays also used for recreational purposes. back
monument INDUSTRIAL * This is the top term for the class. See INDUSTRIAL Class List for narrow terms. back
monument BRIDGE * A structure of wood, stone, iron, brick or concrete, etc, with one or more intervals under it to span a river or other space. Use specific type where known. back
monument AQUEDUCT * An artificial water channel for carrying water over long distances. Use also for bridge-like structures that carry the channel or canal across a valley, river or other obstacle. back
monument STREAM * A natural flow or current of water issuing from a source. back
monument FOOTPATH * A path for pedestrians only. back

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