Bridge Number 72 Hawksmoor 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 72 Hawksmoor Bridge
- WRENN ID
- strange-oriel-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Canal bridge
- Address
- Bridge Number 72 Hawksmoor Bridge, Adderley
- OS grid reference
- SJ 668 401
- Coordinates
- 52.95761, -2.49503
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hawksmoor Bridge, also known as Bridge Number 72, is a canal bridge built around 1830 by engineers Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton. It is constructed of limewashed red brick with some blue brick dressings and features an elliptical arch. The bridge has a humped-back shape, with a chamfered stone string course and a parapet that includes square end piers and rounded stone coping. The abutments are slightly battered and curved. On the towpath side, there are cast-iron corner posts that show grooves from rope haulage. 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 later absorbed by the Ellesmere and Chester Canal in 1845 and became part of the Shropshire Union Canal in 1846. The bridge carries Rectory Lane over the canal.
Local climate
Bridge Number 72 Hawksmoor Bridge receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% 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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