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Shotwick Embankment

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NPRN518894
Map ReferenceSJ37SW
Grid ReferenceSJ3022570393
Unitary (Local) AuthorityMaritime
Old CountyMaritime
CommunityMaritime
Type Of SiteFLOOD DEFENCES
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
A revetment or training wall extending for some 2400m along the northern edge of the River Dee channel. The wall is annotated 'Stone Causeway' and is signposted to mariners with a perch as its western end. The wall abuts to the foreshore at its eastern end.

Sources include:
CPAT, 1997, Coastal Survey: Rhos-on-Sea to Saltney
Historic Chart 1170B-A2, RCAHMW Digital Collections sourced from the UK Hydrographic Office (published 1873).

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, October 2011.