Huddersfield Narrow Canal Stakes Aqueduct and Tow Path Bridge (Aqueduct Bridge) Over River Tame is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1986. Aqueduct and bridge. 1 related planning application.
Huddersfield Narrow Canal Stakes Aqueduct and Tow Path Bridge (Aqueduct Bridge) Over River Tame
- WRENN ID
- quiet-wall-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1986
- Type
- Aqueduct and bridge
- Address
- Huddersfield Narrow Canal Stakes Aqueduct and Tow Path Bridge (Aqueduct Bridge) Over River Tame, SK15 1UN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 954 982
- Coordinates
- 53.48081, -2.07027
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Stakes Aqueduct and tow-path bridge, also known as the Aqueduct Bridge, was built in 1800 and designed by engineer Benjamin Outram. It was cast at Butterley Iron Works and features a cast iron trough aqueduct alongside a hump-backed tow-path bridge. The aqueduct consists of rectangular cast iron sections that were fabricated on-site and bolted together, each with a large tension flange, a small compression flange, and webbed side flanges. The ends of the aqueduct include stop plank housings. In 1875, remedial measures were taken to use the stone arch of the tow-path bridge to support the aqueduct mid-span. The tow-path bridge has an elliptical arch, a stone band, and a hump-backed parapet with round-topped copings, half of which has been rebuilt to create a level parapet. A built-in mile stone indicates "191 miles" and there is also a benchmark. This aqueduct replaced an earlier stone aqueduct from 1795 and is among the earliest iron trough aqueducts in Britain.
Local climate
Huddersfield Narrow Canal Stakes Aqueduct and Tow Path Bridge (Aqueduct Bridge) Over River Tame 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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