Factory Bridge No 47
Factory Bridge No 47 carries a farm track 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 bridge here which takes a road over the canal.
| Shrewsbury Canal Terminal Warehouse | 4½ furlongs | |
| Shrewsbury Basin | 4¼ furlongs | |
| Newpark Road Bridge No 48 | 3¼ furlongs | |
| Factory Bridge No 47 | ||
| Factory Basin | ¼ furlongs | |
| Comet Bridge No 46 | 2½ furlongs | |
| Telford Way Bridge No 45A | 4¾ furlongs | |
| New Inn Bridge No 45 | 1 mile, ½ furlongs | |
| Pimley Bridge No 44 | 1 mile, 6¼ furlongs | |
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Wikipedia has a page about Factory Bridge
Factory Bridge, also known as Horsham Bridge, is a historic wooden covered bridge in White Deer Township, Union County, Pennsylvania. It is a 60-foot-long (18 m), King and Queen truss bridge, constructed in 1880, and repaired in 1954 and 1976. It crosses the White Deer Creek.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.





![Building on the corner of St Michael's Street and Crewe Street. The building, originally a pub as shown on the 1902 map, has an unusual double-pitched roof. It is currently for sale but was most recently used as a hair salon. There is a postbox in the wall. See [[1507211]] for further comment. by Stephen Craven – 16 October 2022](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/32/34/7323435_fad36698_120x120.jpg)

![Cycleway past Ditherington Flaxmill and Maltings. The cycleway roughly follows the line of the former Shrewsbury Canal. See [[7323426]] for more details of the old mill buildings. by Stephen Craven – 16 October 2022](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/32/34/7323428_254e6582_120x120.jpg)













![Site of the former Packing House at Ditherington Flax Mill. Sadly demolished in the late 1970s, the Packing House was the place where finished goods from the Flax Mill factory were packed and despatched - the 6 bricked-up openings in the wall behind the cars are just about all that survives to tell the tale. That wall was Grade II listed https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101254856-ditherington-flax-mill-stables-and-remains-of-packing-warehouse-shrewsbury#.WzCWvqdKhPY in 1987, along with the [[5818649]] just off to the right here. by Richard Law – 31 May 2018](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/05/81/87/5818700_b99cfe9a_120x120.jpg)






![Ditherington Flaxmill and Maltings. The main building was built in 1796-1800 as a flax spinning mill with later additions and alterations. The location was chosen adjacent to the new Shrewsbury Canal that ran in front of the building). It was converted to a maltings in 1897-8, which closed in 1987. The canal had closed in 1939 and been filled in. Bought by English Heritage in 2005 to save it for the nation, restoration and conversion is still in progress but it will eventually be 'a community and economic hub for Shrewsbury'. This will feature a 'bivalent' heating system with a ground source heat pump designed to provide 69% of energy usage for the Main Mill and Kiln, with the remainder provided by natural gas boilers. [[1507148]] shows it at an early stage of the conversion process. The main building is listed grade I (list entry 1270576) among other reasons for the pioneering use of an iron structure for a multi-storeyed building, and as an exceptionally early survival from the first generation of steam-powered textile mills.The smaller malt kiln of 1897 to the right is separately listed grade II (entry 1428732). There will be housing in front of the mill that will eventually obscure this view from the road. by Stephen Craven – 16 October 2022](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/32/34/7323426_03591327_120x120.jpg)

