Canal Aqueduct is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1993. Aqueduct.
Canal Aqueduct
- WRENN ID
- former-hammer-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1993
- Type
- Aqueduct
- Address
- Canal Aqueduct, Culvert Lane, Newburgh
- OS grid reference
- SD 481 107
- Coordinates
- 53.59101, -2.78411
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Canal Aqueduct in Newburgh is a Grade II listed structure that dates from around 1771 to 1774. It carries the Leeds-Liverpool Canal over a culverted public road and was originally overseen by resident engineer James Brindley, who was succeeded by John Longbotham. Constructed for the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company, the aqueduct is made of large squared sandstone blocks, with some coursed sandstone rubble. It features a low semi-circular arched culvert with plain voussoirs at each end, a plain band above the arch, and a plain cornice and parapet made of coursed rubble. This aqueduct is part of one of the earliest and most ambitious trunk canals in the country and is located approximately 30 meters south of Giant's Hall, with which it forms a group.
Local climate
Canal Aqueduct sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% 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 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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