Canal Aqueduct, Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1993. Aqueduct.
Canal Aqueduct, Leeds and Liverpool Canal
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-steeple-sage
- 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, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Deans Lane, Newburgh
- OS grid reference
- SD 477 110
- Coordinates
- 53.59319, -2.79057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Canal Aqueduct on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, built around 1771-1774, carries the canal over a public road. The resident engineer was James Brindley, who was succeeded by John Longbotham around 1771-1772. Constructed for the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company, the aqueduct features large squared sandstone blocks and some brick, with a coursed sandstone rubble parapet on the south side only. It includes a low semi-circular culvert with plain voussoirs at the portals, which are flanked by raked abutments at right angles. The southeast abutment is made of brick, while the northeast one is concrete, both topped with flat stone copings that extend from a plain cornice. There is a short central parapet with rounded coping. This aqueduct is part of one of the earliest and most ambitious trunk canals in the country.
Local climate
Canal Aqueduct, Leeds and Liverpool Canal 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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