Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bank Lock
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 February 1996
- Locality
- Bank
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.70884, -3.09640
- Cadw reference
- 16737
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Immediately S of the bridge that carries Coppice Lane over the Montgomeryshire Canal, E of Bank Farm, 4km approx N of Welshpool
Exterior
History: The Montgomeryshire Canal was built as far as Garthmyl between 1794-7, engineered by John and Thomas Dadford. Between 1819 and 1831, G.W.Buck was engineer to the Montgomeryshire Canal Eastern Branch, and introduced a distinctive system of lock ground-sluice control in 1831: these remain in situ at this lock. In the 1880's and 1890's, an extensive programme of repair was carried out by the Shropshire Union Canal and Railway Company, and it is likely that while the lock was part of the early engineering of the canal, it was substantially repaired or rebuilt in the later C19.
Description: Blue brick lined chamber with stone copings and timber gates. Cast-iron ground-sluice controls. There is a small blue brick hut on either side of the lock; curved red- brick retaining wall to platform above falling tow-path level to NE of lock.
A good, well-preserved example of a typical Montgomeryshire Canal lock.
Reference: Stephen Hughes, The Archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal, 1988, p24-5.
Nearby in the register
- Bridge 109 over the Montgomeryshire CanalTransportunder 1 mi
- Cabin LockTransportunder 1 mi
- Crowther HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tanhouse BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.