North Rode viaduct

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.