Roving Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1984. Bridge.
Roving Bridge
- WRENN ID
- tired-banister-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1984
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Roving Bridge, Wardle
- OS grid reference
- SJ 613 570
- Coordinates
- 53.10884, -2.5795
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Roving Bridge is a towing path bridge located at the junction of the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal with the Chester to Nantwich length. It was built around 1830 and is attributed to Thomas Telford. The bridge is constructed of red and blue bricks with stone dressing and features a very humped, elliptical arch. The north parapet has square end piers topped with rectangular, four-way weathered stone copings, while the south parapet curves through 90 degrees to meet the ground parallel to the canal. The parapet copings have a segmental section between the end finishings. At road level, there is a projecting weathered stone carriage band. Additionally, a segmental relieving arch is present in the abutment of the bridge on the canal side, opposite the tow path.
Local climate
Roving Bridge receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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