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Masonry and brick bridges. When canals were built they cut across estates, farmlands and existing roads. The canal company was required in the Acts of Parliament that authorised the canal to ensure that no one was inconvenienced. Hence large numbers of bridges were required, often doing no more than linking two fields, as in the simple brick accommodation bridge on the Llangollen Canal on the left. Much grander structures were erected when country estates were crossed and the permission of the landowners had to be courted, as with the high masonry bridge on the Shropshire Union Canal on the right.