Congleton Viaduct from Congleton Edge (Scan from 1999)

A place for lunch on the first leg of the Staffordshire Way on a warm August day of 1999.

“Grade II Listed Building Railway viaduct. 1849. By the engineer J C Forsyth for the North Staffordshire Railway, the stonemason being John Mellor of Rainow. English bond red and blue engineering bricks with stone dressings. Twenty round arches supported on rectangular piers with slightly projecting plinths. Stone supports for centering to inner faces of some piers. The third and thirteenth piers are later and have stone facings to outer faces with pitted rustication. Brick bond above supporting ashlar string course and ashlar parapet.”