Shropshire Union Canal Bridge Number 57 (High Bridge) is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. Bridge.

Shropshire Union Canal Bridge Number 57 (High Bridge)

WRENN ID
dark-timber-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
The Wrekin MP: Mark Pritchard (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1987
Type
Bridge
Address
Shropshire Union Canal Bridge Number 57 (High Bridge), Sutton Upon Tern
OS grid reference
SJ 697 307
Coordinates
52.873, -2.45136
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bridge Number 57, also known as High Bridge, is a canal bridge built around 1830, designed by engineers Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton. It is constructed from dressed red sandstone, featuring rock-faced and tooled ashlar dressings. The bridge has a very tall elliptical arch made of voussoirs, with raised impost blocks and a keystone. It includes a flat string course and a parapet with square end piers and rounded coping. The abutments are slightly battered and curved. This bridge spans the canal within a deep cutting.

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 in 1846.

Local climate

Shropshire Union Canal Bridge Number 57 (High Bridge) receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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