Bridge Over Railway Circa 170 Metres North West of Turton Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. Bridge.
Bridge Over Railway Circa 170 Metres North West of Turton Tower
- WRENN ID
- haunted-pilaster-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- SD 729 154
- Coordinates
- 53.63442, -2.40986
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This bridge, located approximately 170 metres northwest of Turton Tower, was built between 1847 and 1848 to cross a railway cutting for the Blackburn, Darwen and Bolton Railway. The resident engineer for the project was Terence Flanagan. Constructed from rock-faced gritstone with ashlar ornamentation, the bridge features a medieval style with a four-centred arch, decorative bands, a sloped deck, and parapets. At the west end, there are corbelled cylindrical machicolated turrets that rise through the parapet. This bridge is less elaborate than another bridge built as part of the same project, which was under an agreement with James Kay of Turton Tower, a director of the Blackburn, Darwen and Bolton Railway Company.
Local climate
Bridge Over Railway Circa 170 Metres North West of Turton Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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