Marple Railway Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Stockport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. Railway viaduct. 1 related planning application.

Marple Railway Viaduct

WRENN ID
guardian-crypt-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stockport
Constituency
Hazel Grove MP: Lisa Smart (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 October 1985
Type
Railway viaduct
OS grid reference
SJ 955 900
Coordinates
53.40766, -2.06853
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Marple Railway Viaduct, built in 1863 for the MS & LR Railway Company, is a railway viaduct located in Marple. It features snecked rock-faced stone with repairs made in engineering brick, as well as one span constructed from wrought iron girder. The structure includes 12 stone arches and one wrought iron span that crosses over a road, the Peak Forest Canal, and the River Goyt, which is 38 meters below. The arches are semi-circular and rest on plain square piers that taper towards the top. There is a rock-faced corbel table and coping on the parapet wall, and the wrought iron span is skew with a turtle back parapet.

Local climate

Marple Railway Viaduct 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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