The Duchess' Bridge, Over River Aln is a Grade II listed building in the local planning authority area, England. Bridge.
The Duchess' Bridge, Over River Aln
- WRENN ID
- hidden-tower-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- The Duchess' Bridge, Over River Aln, B1338, Alnmouth, Northumberland
- OS grid reference
- NU 243 108
- Coordinates
- 55.39083, -1.61718
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Duchess' Bridge, built in 1864, spans the River Aln. It is constructed from rock-faced stone and features rock-faced-and-margined voussoirs, a band, and a parapet. The bridge has four segmental arches that decrease slightly in height from east to west. It includes bowed cutwaters with domed tops, an impost band, and a chamfered band below the parapet, which has chamfered coping and iron clamps linking the stone blocks. The parapets and short wing walls are supported by square end piers. The internal face of the south parapet displays a line of glinters and a central cast-iron plate that reads: 'TO ELEANOR / DUCHESS OF NORTHUMBERLAND / THE PUBLIC ARE CHIEFLY INDEBTED / FOR THIS STONE BRIDGE / AND FOOTPATH TO THE STATION / A.D. MDCCLXIV'. A similar plate on the north side states 'THE DUCHESS' BRIDGE 1864'. The bridge is partly located in Lesbury Civil Parish.
Local climate
The Duchess' Bridge, Over River Aln receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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