Roving Bridge on the Tame Valley Canal North West of Salford Junction is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Bridge.
Roving Bridge on the Tame Valley Canal North West of Salford Junction
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Perry Barr MP: Ayoub Khan (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Roving Bridge on the Tame Valley Canal North West of Salford Junction, Deykin Avenue B6
- OS grid reference
- SP 090 905
- Coordinates
- 52.51254, -1.86809
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roving Bridge on the Tame Valley Canal, located northwest of Salford Junction, dates from around 1837 to 1840. It is a cast iron bridge made by Horsely Ironworks, featuring plain design with X pattern parapets that are cast as a single piece. The bridge has a bolted deck and is slightly arched. It is supported by brick abutments that have a triple concave return in ashlar stone leading to the towpath approaches.
Local climate
Roving Bridge on the Tame Valley Canal North West of Salford Junction 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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