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Flush Bracket 645: Rectory Farm Bridge   

Flush Bracket on S.E. face of bridge over canal, about 30 chains S. from Rectory Farm [2GL] - FB reported destroyed 18/04/1949.

Location
Grid reference: SP 7570 4835.
Landranger 152: Northampton & Milton Keynes, Buckingham & Daventry.
Structure: Bridge.
Waypoint: FB645.

Neighbouring Flush Brackets
646 Bozenham Mill Bridge 680.96m to the southeast.
647 Grand Union Canal Bridge, by Grafton Regis 1.18km to the south.
644 Weir Lock Bridge 1.20km to the northwest.
591 Stoke Bruerne 1.98km to the northwest.
590 Blisworth Tunnel, South End, Coal Store 2.15km to the northwest.
The nearest fundamental bench mark is Great Linford, 11.08km to the southeast.

Second Geodetic Levelling, England & Wales (1912-21)
This flush bracket was used during the Second geodetic levelling, England & Wales, and was levelled with a height of 242.5870 feet [73.9405 metres] above mean sea level (Newlyn datum). It was included on the Daventry to Great Linford levelling line. The surveyor's description was Flush Bracket on S.E. face of bridge over canal, about 30 chains S. from Rectory Farm.

Logged Visits
Logged on 7th October 2007 by lackofluke. Condition: Destroyed.
The canal narrows at this point but there is no other evidence of a bridge here. Long gone.
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