Lift Bridge No 25 (Shrewsbury Canal)
Lift Bridge No 25 (Shrewsbury Canal) carries the road from Amberscester to Trafford over the Shropshire Union Canal (Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal - Shrewsbury Canal).
Early plans for the Shropshire Union Canal (Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal - Shrewsbury Canal) between Exeter and Ambersbury were proposed by John Longbotham but languished until John Smeaton was appointed as secretary to the board in 1835. Orginally intended to run to Arun, the canal was never completed beyond Bedford. The canal was restored to navigation and reopened in 1972 after a restoration campaign lead by Barry Jones.

There is a lift bridge here.
| Lift Bridge No 27 (Shrewsbury Canal) | 5¼ furlongs | |
| Bridge No 26 (S&NC) | 2½ furlongs | |
| Roddington Wharf | 2 furlongs | |
| Roddington Bridge | 2 furlongs | |
| Roddington Aqueduct | 1½ furlongs | |
| Lift Bridge No 25 (Shrewsbury Canal) | ||
| Lift Bridge No 24 (Shrewsbury Canal) | 4¼ furlongs | |
| Lift Bridge No 23 (Shrewsbury Canal) | 6½ furlongs | |
| Lift Bridge No 22 (Shrewsbury Canal) | 1 mile, 1½ furlongs | |
| Longwaste Bridge No 21 | 2 miles, 1 furlong | |
| Longwaste Wharf | 2 miles, 1¼ furlongs | |
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![In the direction of Isombridge. The same view as [[810026]], only in mid winter rather than in spring. by Richard Law – 25 January 2015](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/33/17/4331720_0873d34d_120x120.jpg)


![Disused canal bridge at Rodington. The bridge marks the route of the former Shrewsbury tub boat canal. This was a narrow-gauge canal, capable of carrying boats 6' wide with a 3' draught, which ran from the coalfields north of the area that is now Telford, to Shrewsbury. It opened in 1797, and became a branch of the Shropshire Union Canal in the 1840s, but suffered badly at the hands of the railway thereafter, and eventually closed in the 1920s. Relatively little remains of the canal these days, especially in the fields in this area, but this bridge and an embankment just east of here, plus the aqueduct at Longdon-on-Tern [[11908]], and the warehouses at Wapenshall [[285465]] trace parts of the route from the Muxton area. by Richard Law – 25 January 2015](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/33/28/4332869_e36221cf_120x120.jpg)





