Briars Brook Culvert is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1993. Canal culvert.

Briars Brook Culvert

WRENN ID
long-keep-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lancashire
Constituency
West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 March 1993
Type
Canal culvert
Address
Briars Brook Culvert, Briars Lane, Lathom
OS grid reference
SD 453 111
Coordinates
53.59439, -2.82652
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Briars Brook Culvert is a canal culvert built around 1771 that carries the Leeds-Liverpool Canal over Eller Brook. It was designed by resident engineer John Longbotham for the Leeds-Liverpool Canal Company. The structure is made of coursed sandstone rubble and features a segmental arch with plain voussoirs, a plain band, and a parapet that is finished with a single course of large blocks and a rounded coping. On the west side, there is a curved and sloped abutment, with the coping extending down from the band. This culvert is part of one of the earliest trunk canals in the country.

Local climate

Briars Brook Culvert 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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