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Devizes, Wiltshire KAC53.59 |
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KandAC mile 53
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Cemetery Road Bridge, bridge 140, west side.
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Cemetery Road Bridge carries the road leading to the cemetery of the
Devizes and Roundway Joint Burial Board.
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The bridge is stone built, but much repaired with bricks of different
types, the bridge number plate is fairly new; 53 miles 59 chains from
Reading.
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headroom |
11ft2ins |
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depth of water |
5ft7ins |
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Cemetery Road bridge, east face, ashlar stonework.
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Cemetery Road bridge, west face, ashlar stonework and a patchwork of
brick repairs.
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Crumbling ashlar stonework, repaired in engineering bricks and
ordinary bricks in english bond.
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Stretcher bond brick repairs to the arch, with some odd courses making
adjustments for the different sizes of modern bricks?
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Although Bath Stone is a fine building stone (for those who don't
dislike the soft unstonelike honey colour) it does need to be laid
correctly and to be of reasonable quality. There are various tales
about the sources of the stone used by John Rennie for the Kennet and
Avon Canal - that one of the director's owned a quarry - that the
canal company owned a quarry .... Whatever the reason the stone used
was not very good and provided a lots of bills for repair work.
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Kennet and Avon Scrapbook 2000
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