Monument record 2515/26 - Weaver Navigation Company, Navigation Yard

<1> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 306/2, c.1850 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

This map depicts the navigation yard, sawpits and workshops belonging to the Weaver Navigation Company.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1876, Metric Ten Foot Scale Town Plan of Northwich (Maps and Plans). SCH4488.

This map depicts the navigation yard and associated buildings including a smithy. The Navigation offices are located to the south and the Castle Dockyard to the immediate north. The navigation yard appears to be open to the River Weaver and the associated towpath.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1896-1898, Ordnance Survey First Revision County Series (Epoch 2) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ6573, 1898 (Maps and Plans). SCH3848.

The yard is bisected for the road for the Hayhurst Bridge, but the bridge is not extant yet. The smithy is still labelled.

<4> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 57635 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Clock tower of Weaver Navigation Trust (now B.W.B.), 1830. Brick and weatherboarded timber frame. Lowest stage of brick has recessed panel in each side; three upper stages of timber have clock faces on north and south sides of top stage, above which is a hemispherical cupola, with moulded finial, on four Doric columns. External wooden steps to raised doorway.