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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 602853
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/602853
Avon aqueduct is a magnificent, cast-iron lined structures comprising 12, 50 ft arch spans, each span built to a standardised construction with hollow spandrels in the best Telford tradition. Although Telford was not altogether convinced of the need for masonry spans and spandrels in addition to the iron troughs, Baird adopted this practice as the engineer of Avon Aqueduct, is 810 ft long and 85 ft high. The aqueduct was constructed between 1819–21 by Messrs Craven, Whitaker and Nowell. The canal is carried along the structure in a cast-iron trough 7 ft deep and 1312 ft wide. The trough is supported on the arches by a series of longitudinal masonry walls, and its sides are backed by the spandrel masonry of the aqueduct (see section).
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
