
Stockings Brook Aqueduct | 7¾ furlongs | |
Sandy Lane Bridge No 81 | 6 furlongs | |
Gayton Brook Aqueduct | 4¼ furlongs | |
Weston Bridge No 80 | 3½ furlongs | |
Weston Bridge Aqueduct | 3½ furlongs | |
Weston Salt Works Arm | ||
Weston Lock No 24 | 2¼ furlongs | |
Brinepit Bridge No 79 | 2¼ furlongs | |
Ingestre Winding Hole | 5¾ furlongs | |
Amerton Brook Aqueduct | 6 furlongs | |
Ingestre Bridge No 78 | 6¾ furlongs |
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Staffordshire’s salt industry was never on the same scale as Cheshire or Worcestershire and was always limited to evaporating brine. Nonetheless it was an important industry in the county which continued production until the 1960s.
The parish of Weston was one of the two centres for this industry and the earliest. Salt making at Shirleywich was well established as early as 1686 when Dr Robert Plot wrote of Shirleywich salt that it was “as good a white salt for all uses perhaps as anywhere in England”.
The export of Shirleywich salt from the county was considerably
helped by the building of the Trent and Mersey Canal in 1766-1777,
almost adjacent to the works. Production expanded in Weston during
the early 19th century but by the 1890s it was in decline. This was
as a result of the discovery of brine pits in Stafford and the
establishment of the industry there.
(Taken from the William
Salt Library)
- Trent & Mersey Canal Society – founded in 1974 — associated with Trent and Mersey Canal
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