Thieves Clough Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. Bridge.

Thieves Clough Bridge

WRENN ID
broken-wall-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 July 1985
Type
Bridge
Address
Thieves Clough Bridge, Standedge
OS grid reference
SE 020 100
Coordinates
53.58742, -1.96985
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Thieves Clough Bridge is an 18th-century packhorse bridge featuring a single span semicircular arch. It is constructed from roughly coursed dry rubble and spans over Thieves Clough. This bridge was part of the former Trans-Pennine packhorse route that connected Mount Road in Marsden to Lancashire.

Local climate

Thieves Clough Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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