Shropshire Union Canal Bridge Number 52 (Fox Bridge) is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. Bridge.
Shropshire Union Canal Bridge Number 52 (Fox Bridge)
- WRENN ID
- quiet-cloister-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- The Wrekin MP: Mark Pritchard (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1987
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Shropshire Union Canal Bridge Number 52 (Fox Bridge), Cheswardine
- OS grid reference
- SJ 716 282
- Coordinates
- 52.8507, -2.4222
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fox Bridge, also known as Bridge Number 52, is a canal bridge built around 1830, designed by engineers Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton. It is constructed from dressed red sandstone with tooled ashlar dressings. The bridge features an elliptical arch made of voussoirs and a flush keystone, giving it a distinctly humped-back shape. It has a flat string course and a parapet with square end piers and rounded coping. The abutments are slightly battered and curved. On the towpath side, there are cast-iron corner posts that show grooves from rope haulage. A 20th-century oval number plate is also present. This section of the canal was part of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, which was authorized by an act in 1826 and opened in 1835. It was later absorbed by the Ellesmere and Chester Canal in 1845 and became part of the Shropshire Union Canal in 1846.
Local climate
Shropshire Union Canal Bridge Number 52 (Fox Bridge) receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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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