Wheaton Aston Bridge (No. 18) is a Grade II listed building in the South Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. Bridge.

Wheaton Aston Bridge (No. 18)

WRENN ID
worn-basalt-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Staffordshire
Constituency
Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge MP: Sir Gavin Williamson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 July 1985
Type
Bridge
Address
Wheaton Aston Bridge (No. 18), Lapley, Stretton and Wheaton Aston
OS grid reference
SJ 859 125
Coordinates
52.71045, -2.20929
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wheaton Aston Bridge, built around 1832, is an accommodation bridge over the Shropshire Union Canal. It features limewashed brickwork with stone coping and a string course. The bridge has a single elliptical arch with a slightly concave-sided plan, a cambered carriageway, and a parapet. The parapet has half round coping and piers at each end, along with cast iron hawser spurs located at the springings on the towpath side. The Shropshire Union Canal was engineered by Thomas Telford and completed in 1835.

Local climate

Wheaton Aston Bridge (No. 18) receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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