German's Lock and Bridge (That Part in Burscough) Leeds and Liverpool Canal German's Lock and Bridge (That Part in Lathom) is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1993. Canal lock and bridge.

German's Lock and Bridge (That Part in Burscough) Leeds and Liverpool Canal German's Lock and Bridge (That Part in Lathom)

WRENN ID
dim-chancel-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lancashire
Constituency
West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 March 1993
Type
Canal lock and bridge
OS grid reference
SD 456 131
Coordinates
53.61172, -2.8231
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

German's Lock and Bridge, located on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, is a canal lock and associated accommodation bridge on the Rufford Branch, built around 1781 and altered later. The resident engineer was Richard Owen, and it was constructed for the Leeds-Liverpool Canal Company. The structure features large dressed sandstone blocks, wooden gates, and small cast-iron mooring bollards on both sides, with an overflow channel on the west side. The bridge over the north entrance has a stilted basket-arch made of punch-dressed rusticated voussoirs, a dressed band, and a parapet of massive blocks with rounded coping. It includes plain terminal piers and steps down at the west end, with an oval number plate "3" on the north side. The lock and bridge are situated on the boundary between Burscough and Lathom.

Local climate

German's Lock and Bridge (That Part in Burscough) Leeds and Liverpool Canal German's Lock and Bridge (That Part in Lathom) 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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