Chirkbank Bridge (Bridge Number 21) is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. Canal bridge.
Chirkbank Bridge (Bridge Number 21)
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-loggia-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Canal bridge
- Address
- Chirkbank Bridge (Bridge Number 21), Weston Rhyn
- OS grid reference
- SJ 292 371
- Coordinates
- 52.92681, -3.05458
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chirkbank Bridge, also known as Bridge Number 21, is a canal bridge built around 1800 as part of William Jessop's and Thomas Telford's Ellesmere Canal. The bridge features uncoursed limestone rubble abutments, an ashlar string course, and a parapet. It has a cambered arch with a stone lintel and a projecting keystone, along with cast-iron ribs on the underside. The corners are marked by rectangular piers topped with shallow pyramidal capping. A cast-iron plate displaying the number "21" is located on the east side of the bridge. This section of the Ellesmere Canal was opened in 1801 to connect Chirk with Welsh Frankton.
Local climate
Chirkbank Bridge (Bridge Number 21) receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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