Outwood Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Bury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1976. Bridge.
Outwood Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- lunar-chalk-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bury
- Constituency
- Bury South MP: Christian Wakeford (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1976
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- SD 781 067
- Coordinates
- 53.5567, -2.33162
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Outwood Viaduct is a former railway bridge that spans the River Irwell, built in 1881 for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway by Andrew Handyside and Co of Derby. The structure features five cast-iron arches supported by tall brick pillars, which are topped with stone. It has brick abutments and stone bases with cutwaters on two pillars located in the river bed. The six ribs of the arches are arranged to support the railway tracks directly, and the bridge has wooden decking. This viaduct is noted as an unusually late example of a cast iron railway bridge.
Local climate
Outwood Viaduct 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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