Manchester and Leeds Railway Gauxholme Railway Bridge Over the Rochdale Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1984. Railway bridge. 1 related planning application.

Manchester and Leeds Railway Gauxholme Railway Bridge Over the Rochdale Canal

WRENN ID
solitary-attic-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1984
Type
Railway bridge
Address
Manchester and Leeds Railway Gauxholme Railway Bridge Over the Rochdale Canal, Todmorden
OS grid reference
SD 930 233
Coordinates
53.70629, -2.10664
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Gauxholme Railway Bridge over the Rochdale Canal is a railway bridge built in 1840 by George Stephenson. It features pitch-faced retaining walls and large dressed stone towers, with a cast-iron and steel bridge spanning between them. The structure includes four semi-octagonal towers adorned with a torus moulded band. One face of the bridge has a blank shield flanked by blind arrow-slits, and there is a band beneath false machiolations topped with an embattled parapet. The original cast-iron bridge has a segmental arch with an engraved shield at the center, although the inscription is not legible. Gothic cavetto chamfered lancets support the top rail. Between the original bridge, which now serves as a balustrade, and the current line is a square sectional steel bridge from the mid-20th century. This bridge is considered the most outstanding railway bridge on the line.

Local climate

Manchester and Leeds Railway Gauxholme Railway Bridge Over the Rochdale Canal sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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