Dicks Lane Bridge Number 39, Stratford Upon Avon Canal

Grade: II
Date Listed: 16 February 1990

OS Grid Reference: SP1868069978
OS Grid Coordinates: 418680, 269978
Latitude/Longitude: 52.3276, -1.7273

Brick abutments with stone copings and cast-iron handrails and decks.
Abutments support 2 cantilevered decks with x-framed integral handrails and are split for tow ropes.
Splayed parapet walls, with original fixed iron rod to copings.
The South Stratford Canal was constructed between 1793-1816 at a cost of 500,000. 13.5 miles of the canal from Kingswood Junction, Lapworth to Stratford-upon-Avon was leased by the
National Trust in 1960 from the British Waterways Board for restoration.
The National Trust acquired the freehold c1964.