Canal Bridge (Knotts Bridge) is a Grade II listed building in the Burnley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1985. Bridge.
Canal Bridge (Knotts Bridge)
- WRENN ID
- far-stronghold-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Burnley
- Constituency
- Burnley MP: Oliver Ryan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1985
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Canal Bridge (Knotts Bridge), 123, Hapton
- OS grid reference
- SD 803 322
- Coordinates
- 53.78581, -2.29967
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knotts Bridge is a bridge over the Leeds-Liverpool Canal, built around 1800 by engineers Robert Whitworth and Samuel Fletcher. It is constructed from coursed sandstone blocks and features an elliptical arch with rusticated voussoirs. There is a decorative band above the arch and pilastered ends.
Local climate
Canal Bridge (Knotts Bridge) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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