Shropshire Union Canal Bridge Number 79 is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1986. Canal bridge.
Shropshire Union Canal Bridge Number 79
- WRENN ID
- weathered-grate-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1986
- Type
- Canal bridge
- Address
- Shropshire Union Canal Bridge Number 79, Oswestry Rural
- OS grid reference
- SJ 313 250
- Coordinates
- 52.81824, -3.01981
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Shropshire Union Canal Bridge Number 79 is a canal bridge built around 1796 by engineers William Jessop and Thomas Telford. It is constructed of red brick and features a coped parapet. The bridge has a segmental arch, a string course, and corner piers. This section of the Ellesmere Canal was opened in 1796 to connect with the Montgomeryshire Canal at Carreghofa and became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846.
Local climate
Shropshire Union Canal Bridge Number 79 receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% 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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