Bridge Number 56 (Burns Wood Bridge) is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1988. Bridge.
Bridge Number 56 (Burns Wood Bridge)
- WRENN ID
- small-gravel-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1988
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Bridge Number 56 (Burns Wood Bridge), Welshampton and Lyneal
- OS grid reference
- SJ 420 337
- Coordinates
- 52.89782, -2.8627
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bridge Number 56, also known as Burns Wood Bridge, is an accommodation bridge built between 1797 and 1801, with minor later alterations, as part of William Jessop's and Thomas Telford's Ellesmere Canal. The bridge is constructed of red brick and features a flat stone-coped parapet that ends in square corner piers. It has an elliptical arch with projecting keybricks and a flat string course. On the east side, there is a late 20th-century oval-shaped plate numbered "56." This section of the Ellesmere Canal was completed around 1801. The Ellesmere Canal Company merged with the Chester Canal Company in 1813 and became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846.
Local climate
Bridge Number 56 (Burns Wood Bridge) receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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