The small parish of Dutton is blessed with a wealth of historically interesting building and structures, with no less than 22 listed buildings.including houses, mileposts, and bridges and locks related to the Trent and Mersey Canal the River Weaver and of course the Dutton Viaduct.

Dutton Viaduct

The viaduct was built in 1836 by Joseph Locke and George Stephenson for the Grand Junction Railway, now part of the West Coast Mainline. It runs between the villages of Dutton and Acton Bridge and is 457m (500 yards) long, 60 feet high, and comprises 20 impressive arches..

Building costs totaled £54,440 in 1836 which would be the equivalent of £4.6 million in 2015. Steel masts were added in the 1960s for electrification.

The contractor was William Mackenzie who had a prolific and busy career as a civil engineer in the nineteenth century and is buried in a pyramidal tomb in St Andrews Church, Liverpool.

Dutton Horse Bridge

The Grade II listed Horse Bridge is a twin-span timber footbridge over the Weaver Navigation located between the Dutton Viaduct and the Dutton Locks. The Bridge dates from 1915-1919 and was designed by the Weaver Navigation Trust’s Chief Engineer, John Arthur Saner.

The bridge is one of the earliest remaining examples of a laminated timber structure and is also believed to be the sole laminated greenheart timber bridge in the country. It was renovated in 1990 when it was found that some of the original submerged greenheart timber sections were still in tact.

The bridge is still part of the towpath and also carries a a bridleway forming part of the Aston Ring Bridleway.