Forge Locks is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. Canal locks. 1 related planning application.

Forge Locks

WRENN ID
peeling-gravel-jay
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
Forge Locks, Leeds and Liverpool Canal
OS grid reference
SE 250 363
Coordinates
53.823, -1.62119
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Forge 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 lock gates, with steps on each side. Steel footbridges have replaced the single wooden bridge on the downstream side of each gate. There is an overflow and side channel on the south side. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal was constructed from 1770 to 1816, with the section from Leeds to Gargrave completed by 1777.

Local climate

Forge 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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