Roving Bridge Just West of Rotton Park West and Soho Loop East Entrance, Over Birmingham Wolverhampton Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Bridge.
Roving Bridge Just West of Rotton Park West and Soho Loop East Entrance, Over Birmingham Wolverhampton Canal
- WRENN ID
- vast-postern-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Edgbaston MP: Preet Kaur Gill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Roving Bridge Just West of Rotton Park West and Soho Loop East Entrance, Over Birmingham Wolverhampton Canal, Wiggin Street B16
- OS grid reference
- SP 048 874
- Coordinates
- 52.48466, -1.92974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roving Bridge, located just west of the Rotton Park West and Soho Loop East entrances over the Birmingham Wolverhampton Canal, is a cast iron trough bridge dating from around 1830. It is of the Horseley type but was actually cast by Thompson, Astbury and Company of Smethwick. The bridge features X pattern pierced balustrades and double ranged stone dressed brick abutments.
Local climate
Roving Bridge Just West of Rotton Park West and Soho Loop East Entrance, Over Birmingham Wolverhampton Canal receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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