Bridge and Watering Place for Cattle Approximately 50 Metres South of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Bridge.

Bridge and Watering Place for Cattle Approximately 50 Metres South of Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
outer-tracery-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1984
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
SJ 334 222
Coordinates
52.79404, -2.98899
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The bridge and watering place for cattle, located approximately 50 meters south of the Church of St Mary in Knockin, dates from the early 19th century. It is constructed from uncoursed red sandstone rubble with a thin coping. The bridge features a segmental arch that lacks keystones. To the south, there is a semicircular enclosure with walls about 1 meter high. The west branch of Weir Brook flows into the enclosure beneath the bridge and exits at the southern end through a segmental archway, which is infilled above the stream with a wooden open picket grille. There are entries to the watering place at both the east and west ends of the road parapet wall. Notably, there are approximately 8-centimeter diameter semicircular depressions in the parapet of the south wall, which are believed to have been caused by the friction of wire-bound hose pipes when steam engines were filled with water at this location.

Local climate

Bridge and Watering Place for Cattle Approximately 50 Metres South of Church of St Mary 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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