Wynch Bridge is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Bridge.
Wynch Bridge
- WRENN ID
- gentle-corbel-wagtail
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Wynch Bridge, Newbiggin
- OS grid reference
- NY 903 278
- Coordinates
- 54.64609, -2.15056
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wynch Bridge is a suspension bridge built around 1820 for the Duke of Cleveland, replacing an earlier bridge on the site that was erected before 1757 and was said to be the earliest in Europe. The bridge features cast iron columns, wrought iron hangers, suspension cables, and handrails, along with a wooden deck. At each end, there are two tapered Tuscan columns that support iron blocks through which the suspension rails are threaded. Iron guy cables and square-section guy rods are bolted to the outside of these blocks. Of the three original handrails threaded through the 13 pairs of hangers, the top one was missing, as were the planks of the deck, at the time of the survey. The deck is supported by 13 beams and was being reinforced during the survey.
The original bridge was constructed to allow lead miners living in Holwick to access the mines at Middleton.
Local climate
Wynch Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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