WOLVERTON AQUEDUCT 1811 Buckinghamshire Grand Junction Canal/River Ouse N52o 4' 7.5" W0o 50' o.5"

When a three arched masonry aqueduct collapsed in 1808, the canal company engineer William Provis, who had worked with Thomas Wilson on the Tickford Bridge and who was familiar with Telford's Longdon, Chirk and Pontcysyllte iron trough aqueducts, placed an order with William Reynolds & Co. of Ketley for a 101 foot long iron aqueduct supported by a masonry pier. Benjamin Bevan probably was more directly involved on this project than Provis who would have been fully occupied with the Tickford Bridge which was going forward at the same time.

To find it, take the Old Wolverton High Street to its south end and take a right at the roundabout down past the Galleon Pub on the canal and park. Take the footpath west along the canal for a ten minute walk.