Barnsley Canal Blue Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1986. Bridge.
Barnsley Canal Blue Bridge
- WRENN ID
- carved-sandstone-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth MP: Jon Trickett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1986
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Barnsley Canal Blue Bridge, Walton
- OS grid reference
- SE 364 147
- Coordinates
- 53.62779, -1.44985
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Barnsley Canal Blue Bridge is an accommodation bridge built in the late 18th century. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone, with part of the parapet rendered. The bridge features a single horse-shoe elliptical arch that is reinforced with heavily-grooved metal plates on the south side to protect the angle from wear caused by tow ropes. On the north side, there is a vertical narrow groove set in the middle of the intrados, rising from a horizontal segmental-arched shallow recess near the water's edge, which may have once supported a sluice gate. The bridge has splayed retaining walls and a band and parapet that end in square piers at both ends. The Barnsley Canal was authorized by an act passed in 1793 and was constructed between 1793 and 1799, with William Jessop serving as the consulting engineer and Samuel Hartley as the resident engineer.
Local climate
Barnsley Canal Blue Bridge receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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