Newlay Locks is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. A C18 Canal locks. 2 related planning applications.

Newlay Locks

WRENN ID
riven-footing-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Constituency
Leeds West and Pudsey MP: Rachel Reeves (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 August 1976
Type
Canal locks
Address
Newlay Locks, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, LS13 1EQ
OS grid reference
SE 242 366
Coordinates
53.82594, -1.63323
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Newlay Locks is a flight of three locks built between 1770 and 1777 on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The locks feature dressed millstone grit walls that ramp up to the lower two gates. There are steps on each side, and steel footbridges have replaced the original single wooden bridge on the downstream side of each gate. An overflow is located on the south side. The canal connecting Leeds and Holmbridge, near Gargrave, was opened in 1777, while the entire Leeds and Liverpool Canal was completed in 1816.

Local climate

Newlay Locks receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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