Bridge Number 70 Wems 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 70 Wems Bridge
- WRENN ID
- standing-pediment-bracken
- 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 70 Wems Bridge, Adderley
- OS grid reference
- SJ 669 393
- Coordinates
- 52.95091, -2.49273
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bridge Number 70, also known as Wems Bridge, is a canal bridge built around 1830, designed by engineers Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton. The bridge is constructed of limewashed red brick, featuring some blue brick dressings. It has an elliptical arch and 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 showing grooves from rope haulage, and an oval cast-iron number plate is located on the south side. 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 absorbed by the Ellesmere and Chester Canal in 1845 and later became part of the Shropshire Union Canal in 1846. The bridge spans the canal below the fourth lock in the Adderley flight.
Local climate
Bridge Number 70 Wems 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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