Swing Bridge Over Entrance to Canning Dock is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1985. Bridge. 1 related planning application.

Swing Bridge Over Entrance to Canning Dock

WRENN ID
open-paling-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Liverpool
Constituency
Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 June 1985
Type
Bridge
Address
Swing Bridge Over Entrance to Canning Dock, L3 4AN
OS grid reference
SJ 341 899
Coordinates
53.40206, -2.99228
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The swing bridge over the entrance to Canning Dock, built around 1845 by J. Hartley, is an iron structure consisting of two halves. It features granite housing at each end and is supported by segmental girders that hold up a flat deck.

Local climate

Swing Bridge Over Entrance to Canning Dock sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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