Hand Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Burnley local planning authority area, England. Bridge.
Hand Bridge
- WRENN ID
- calm-rampart-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Burnley
- Constituency
- Burnley MP: Oliver Ryan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Hand Bridge, Todmorden Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 848 321
- Coordinates
- 53.78549, -2.23201
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hand Bridge is a public road bridge over the River Calder, likely constructed when Todmorden Road was turnpiked in 1817, although it has the date "1866" inscribed on the east side. The bridge was widened on the west side in the 20th century. The east side features a very low semi-elliptical arch with rusticated run-out voussoirs, which are decorated with a unique and creative form of vermiculation that includes primitive foliation and faces, along with the date "1866" positioned low on the left. Additional features include a plain band, a parapet with rounded coping, a rectangular terminal pier to the south, and a 7-meter continuation south of this that incorporates a stone baffle gateway, which is damaged.
Local climate
Hand Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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