Rochdale Canal Canal Overflow Ford Approximately 30 Metres to North West of Canal Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. Ford.

Rochdale Canal Canal Overflow Ford Approximately 30 Metres to North West of Canal Bridge

WRENN ID
spare-chalk-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 March 1987
Type
Ford
OS grid reference
SE 032 255
Coordinates
53.72603, -1.95207
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The canal overflow ford, located approximately 30 metres northwest of the canal bridge, dates from around 1800 and was built for the Rochdale Canal Company. It features stone setts, wood, and brick. Timber balks edge the canal, allowing water to overflow over the 2-metre wide ford, which is laid with stone setts, and down the hillside into the River Calder below. Square brick piers from a later, now-gone bridge span the ford, with the round-topped ashlar parapet still surviving. The Rochdale Canal was opened in sections between 1798 and 1804, originally surveyed by James Brindley in 1776, resurveyed by John Rennie in 1791, and constructed under the supervision of engineer William Jessop and resident engineer William Crossley. The ford has group value with the Upper Foot Canal Bridge in Sowerby Bridge.

Local climate

Rochdale Canal Canal Overflow Ford Approximately 30 Metres to North West of Canal Bridge 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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