Turn Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. Bridge.

Turn Bridge

WRENN ID
long-footing-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Riding of Yorkshire
Constituency
Goole and Pocklington MP: David Davis (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 February 1967
Type
Bridge
Address
Turn Bridge, Snaith Road, Rawcliffe
OS grid reference
SE 668 214
Coordinates
53.68535, -0.9897
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Turn Bridge is an 18th-century bridge located on Snaith Road in East Cowick. It is constructed from tooled sandstone ashlar with some rock-faced ashlar dressings. The bridge features a triple-arch design, with abutments that are splayed out to the roadway entrances. It has three bays, with the central bay projecting forward. The structure includes a rock-faced ashlar plinth and a stepped-in upper course made of smooth-faced ashlar. The central arch is a keyed rusticated round arch, flanked by single side arches within the plinth, which have rock-faced ashlar voussoirs.

There is a band at the original road level, with a coped parapet situated between cylindrical piers that have square bases, a raised band, and domed caps. The central tunnel vault displays chamfered rustication. The lower sections of the bridge are largely obscured by soil, with only the side arches visible to the north, and the roadway is raised on either side. The bridge spans the Old River Don, which is now a small stream. This branch of the Don was improved by Cornelius Vermuyden in the 1620s, and further improvements in 1726 resulted in this section being by-passed by a new cut to the southeast.

Local climate

Turn Bridge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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