Clapper Bridge Over Dean Beck is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1955. Footbridge.
Clapper Bridge Over Dean Beck
- WRENN ID
- plain-bracket-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Keighley and Ilkley MP: Robbie Moore (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1955
- Type
- Footbridge
- Address
- Clapper Bridge Over Dean Beck, Dean Lane, Keighley
- OS grid reference
- SE 018 404
- Coordinates
- 53.86045, -1.97319
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clapper bridge over Dean Beck is a footbridge of unknown date, located off Keighley Dean Lane in Newsholme Dean. It is constructed from unmortared millstone grit and features boulder piers on both the left and right sides that support a long, cantilevered top stone. A middle stone, approximately 2.5 meters long, completes the span of the bridge.
Local climate
Clapper Bridge Over Dean Beck sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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