Darcy Lever Viaduct Over the River Tonge is a Grade II listed building in the Bolton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 April 2002. Viaduct. 1 related planning application.
Darcy Lever Viaduct Over the River Tonge
- WRENN ID
- quartered-shingle-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton North East MP: Kirith Entwistle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 April 2002
- Type
- Viaduct
- Address
- Darcy Lever Viaduct Over the River Tonge, Radcliffe Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 732 083
- Coordinates
- 53.57074, -2.40517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Darcy Lever Viaduct over the River Tonge is a railway viaduct built in 1848 for the Manchester and Leeds Railway, with spans added in 1881-1882 for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, and a deck replacement in around 1958 for British Railways. The structure is made of wrought iron and coursed squared rock-faced limestone. It features eight spans supported by tall stone piers that rise over the valley of the River Tonge. The spans consist of deep wrought iron girders, including four double Warren girders beneath the tracks and lighter lattice face girders, which may date back to 1848. The railway line was opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1848 after taking over the Manchester and Leeds Railway, which had previously absorbed the Liverpool and Bury Railway that initiated the construction of the line between Bolton and Bury. The decking was replaced with pre-cast concrete in 1958. The line ceased passenger services in 1951 and was completely closed in 1970.
Local climate
Darcy Lever Viaduct Over the River Tonge 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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