Ashton Park Bridge (No. 90) is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1985. Bridge.
Ashton Park Bridge (No. 90)
- WRENN ID
- strange-railing-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1985
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Ashton Park Bridge (No. 90), Thurnham
- OS grid reference
- SD 471 569
- Coordinates
- 54.00543, -2.80757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ashton Park Bridge, built in 1797, is an accommodation bridge over the Lancaster Canal designed by engineer John Rennie. The bridge features punched sandstone blocks and has a single elliptical arch with a stepped keystone. It also includes a solid parapet with a string course and rounded coping.
Local climate
Ashton Park Bridge (No. 90) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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