Prescott Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1993. Bridge.
Prescott Bridge
- WRENN ID
- patient-panel-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1993
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Prescott Bridge, Meadow Lane, Burscough
- OS grid reference
- SD 460 137
- Coordinates
- 53.61757, -2.81696
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Prescott Bridge is a public road bridge that spans the Rufford Branch of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal. It was built around 1781 and has been altered since its construction. The resident engineer for the project was Richard Owen, and it was commissioned by the Leeds-Liverpool Canal Company. The bridge is made of coursed squared sandstone, although the parapets have been rebuilt in concrete. It features a semi-elliptical arch with plain voussoirs, a plain arch-band, and plain terminal piers. On the west side, there are large rectangular metal tie-plates, and on the north side, there is an oval number plate marked "5." The deck of the bridge is humped and cobbled, with remnants of 20th-century asphalt on top. Prescott Bridge is part of a group that includes Baldwin's Lock and Bridge approximately 500 meters to the south, and German's Lock and Bridge about 400 meters further south.
Local climate
Prescott Bridge 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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