Routing Walls Bridge (Number 21) on Peak Forest Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Stockport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. Bridge.
Routing Walls Bridge (Number 21) on Peak Forest Canal
- WRENN ID
- bitter-gable-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stockport
- Constituency
- Hazel Grove MP: Lisa Smart (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- SJ 965 869
- Coordinates
- 53.37956, -2.05389
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Routing Walls Bridge, also known as Number 21, is a road bridge located on the Peak Forest Canal, built between 1794 and 1801. It was engineered by Benjamin Outram and Thomas Brown. The bridge is constructed from dressed red sandstone with ashlar dressings. It features a horseshoe arch, an ashlar band, and concaved parapet and retaining walls that have rounded copings, which are finished with square piers.
Local climate
Routing Walls Bridge (Number 21) on Peak Forest Canal sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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