Bridge Number 68 Adderley Lees Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Canal bridge.
Bridge Number 68 Adderley Lees Bridge
- WRENN ID
- tenth-solder-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Canal bridge
- OS grid reference
- SJ 671 386
- Coordinates
- 52.94458, -2.49099
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Adderley Lees Bridge, also known as Bridge Number 68, is a canal bridge built around 1830 by engineers Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton. It is constructed from dressed red and grey sandstone with tooled dressings. The bridge features an elliptical arch made of voussoirs and a raised keystone, giving it a hump-backed shape. It has a chamfered 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 metal number plate is attached to the south side. This section of the canal was part of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, which was authorized by an act passed in 1826 and opened in 1835. It was absorbed by the Ellesmere and Chester Canal in 1845 and eventually became part of the Shropshire Union Canal in 1846.
Local climate
Bridge Number 68 Adderley Lees Bridge receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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