Leeds and Liverpool Canal Swinden Aqueduct is a Grade II listed building in the Pendle local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1988. Aqueduct.

Leeds and Liverpool Canal Swinden Aqueduct

WRENN ID
ancient-lintel-storm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Pendle
Constituency
Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 January 1988
Type
Aqueduct
Address
Leeds and Liverpool Canal Swinden Aqueduct, Barrowford
OS grid reference
SD 866 393
Coordinates
53.85002, -2.20425
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Swinden Aqueduct is an aqueduct that carries the Leeds and Liverpool Canal over the Colne water, likely built around 1795 and designed by engineer Robert Whitworth. It is constructed from dressed stone, which shows pitting on the faces of the arches and is punched on the parapet. The structure features two elliptical arches, which are separated only on the south side by a bull-nosed, domed cutwater. The face of the abutments on each side curves slightly and ends in a pier. Above the arches, there is a band followed by a parapet, which is interrupted by another band and curves gradually from one pier to the other, standing behind the line of the arches.

Local climate

Leeds and Liverpool Canal Swinden Aqueduct 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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