Runcorn Widnes Road Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1988. Bridge.
Runcorn Widnes Road Bridge
- WRENN ID
- white-granite-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby MP: Sarah Pochin (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1988
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Runcorn Widnes Road Bridge, Halton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 509 834
- Coordinates
- 53.34542, -2.73833
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Runcorn-Widnes Road Bridge is a road bridge built between 1956 and 1961, designed by Mott Hay and Anderson. It features a single steel latticework arch, with the lower surface tapering to a point at each end, resting on concrete cutwaters. The upper surface flattens out and runs horizontally to the ends of the central span. The road surface is suspended from the arch. The span measures 1,082 feet, while the total length of the bridge is 1,628 feet. At the time of its construction, it was the largest steel arch in Europe.
Local climate
Runcorn Widnes Road Bridge receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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