Leeds and Liverpool Canal Northern Entrance to Foulridge Tunnel is a Grade II listed building in the Pendle local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1988. Tunnel entrance.
Leeds and Liverpool Canal Northern Entrance to Foulridge Tunnel
- WRENN ID
- ruined-shingle-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pendle
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1988
- Type
- Tunnel entrance
- OS grid reference
- SD 887 424
- Coordinates
- 53.8781, -2.17259
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The northern entrance to Foulridge Tunnel, part of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, was built in 1796 and designed by engineer Robert Whitworth. The entrance features dressed stone with curving walls and a semicircular arch that is flanked by piers. Both the arch and the piers have vermiculated rustication up to a certain height. There are stone steps leading down to the canal on either side. Foulridge Tunnel is notable as the summit tunnel of the canal, which was initially projected in 1789 but was completed in 1796.
Local climate
Leeds and Liverpool Canal Northern Entrance to Foulridge Tunnel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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