Rochdale Canal Black Pit Aqueduct is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1984. Canal aqueduct.
Rochdale Canal Black Pit Aqueduct
- WRENN ID
- noble-steeple-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1984
- Type
- Canal aqueduct
- Address
- Rochdale Canal Black Pit Aqueduct, Hebden Royd
- OS grid reference
- SD 990 270
- Coordinates
- 53.74027, -2.01512
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Black Pit Aqueduct is a canal aqueduct that spans the River Calder, constructed in 1797 by engineers W. Jessop and W. Crossley. It is built from large dressed stone and features four segmental arches, each with keystones and bull-nosed breakwaters supported by pitch-faced stone piers. The parapet includes a carved head on the keystone and displays the date of construction. The band and parapet are topped with large cappings. This structure is a notable engineering achievement located near the center of Hebden Bridge and is illustrated in C. Spencer's "Hebden Bridge History Trail."
Local climate
Rochdale Canal Black Pit Aqueduct sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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