Alum Scar Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. Bridge.
Alum Scar Bridge
- WRENN ID
- half-column-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Alum Scar Bridge, Billinge End Road, Samlesbury, South Ribble
- OS grid reference
- SD 635 283
- Coordinates
- 53.75014, -2.5538
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alum Scar Bridge is a bridge that carries an old road across Alum House Brook. Its date is unknown, but it is probably a 19th-century replacement of an older bridge. The structure is made of roughly-dressed sandstone blocks and has rubble abutments. It features a high segmental-headed arch set in a deep ravine, with buttressed side walls between the abutments that appear to be older. The middle of the parapets has rounded coping. The old road may be linked to a former alum mine located about 200 meters to the south, which was visited by King James I in 1617. The west side of the bridge is situated in Samlesbury Civil Parish, South Ribble District.
Local climate
Alum Scar Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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