Posset Bridge (Number 18) 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.
Posset Bridge (Number 18) on Peak Forest Canal
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-hearth-shade
- 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 960 886
- Coordinates
- 53.39494, -2.06014
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Posset Bridge, also known as Number 18 on the Peak Forest Canal, was built in 1804 by engineers Benjamin Outram and Thomas Brown. The bridge is constructed from rock-faced and dressed sandstone, featuring ashlar dressings. It has three openings: one for the canal, one for a now-blocked branch leading to the lime kilns, and a horse tunnel. Additionally, there is a boatman's passage that provides access from the pound level to the upper level. The two canal arches are skew, semi-circular, and include keystones, with a battered pier separating them. A stone band is largely obscured by a 20th-century footbridge. The parapets, some of which are missing, are made of ashlar blocks with rounded tops. The horse tunnel features a compressed horseshoe arch with a keystone, a stone band, and square piers on either side.
Local climate
Posset Bridge (Number 18) 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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