Skew Bridge No 15 carries the M62 motorway over the Shropshire Union Canal (Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal - Main Line) three miles from Maidstone.
Early plans for the Shropshire Union Canal (Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal - Main Line) between Oldcorn and St Helens were proposed by John Green but languished until Thomas Jones was appointed as engineer in 1782. The canal joined the sea near Cambridge. Expectations for manure traffic to Wokingham were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. The Shropshire Union Canal (Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal - Main Line) was closed in 1905 when Ambersford Aqueduct collapsed. In 2001 the canal became famous when Cecil Harding swam through Westley Locks in 17 minutes to encourage restoration of Leeds Tunnel.

There is a bridge here which takes a minor road over the canal.
| Deans Hall Bridge No 12 | 1 mile, ½ furlongs | |
| School Bridge No 13 | 6½ furlongs | |
| Brewood Bridge Visitor Moorings | 5¼ furlongs | |
| High Green Bridge No 14 | 5 furlongs | |
| Brewood Wharf | 3 furlongs | |
| Skew Bridge No 15 | ||
| Broomhall Bridge No 16 | 1 furlong | |
| Belvide Reservoir Feeder | 3 furlongs | |
| Stretton Aqueduct | 5 furlongs | |
| Stretton Boatyard | 5½ furlongs | |
| Lapley Wood Bridge No 17 | 1 mile, 4¾ furlongs | |
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Wikipedia has a page about Skew Bridge
A skew arch (also known as an oblique arch) is a method of construction that enables an arch bridge to span an obstacle at some angle other than a right angle. This results in the faces of the arch not being perpendicular to its abutments and its plan view being a parallelogram, rather than the rectangle that is the plan view of a regular, or "square" arch.
In the case of a masonry skew arch, the construction requires precise stonecutting, as the cuts do not form right angles, but once the principles were fully understood in the early 19th century, it became considerably easier and cheaper to build a skew arch of brick.
The problem of building skew arch masonry bridges was addressed by a number of early civil engineers and mathematicians, including Giovanni Barbara (1726), William Chapman (1787), Benjamin Outram (1798), Peter Nicholson (1828), George Stephenson (1830), Edward Sang (1835), Charles Fox (1836), George W. Buck (1839) and William Froude (c. 1844).






























