Calder and Hebble Navigation Number 8 Lock Sir John Ramsdens Canal Number 8 Lock is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Lock.
Calder and Hebble Navigation Number 8 Lock Sir John Ramsdens Canal Number 8 Lock
- WRENN ID
- lost-jade-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lock
- OS grid reference
- SE 156 185
- Coordinates
- 53.66294, -1.76525
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Calder and Hebble Navigation Number 8 Lock, also known as Sir John Ramsden's Canal No 8 Lock, was built between 1774 and 1780. It features ashlar kerbstones and iron mooring hooks, along with two wooden lock gates.
Local climate
Calder and Hebble Navigation Number 8 Lock Sir John Ramsdens Canal Number 8 Lock sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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