Suspension Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1994. Bridge.
Suspension Bridge
- WRENN ID
- distant-solder-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Bedford MP: Mohammad Yasin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1994
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Suspension Bridge, the Embankment
- OS grid reference
- TL 057 495
- Coordinates
- 52.13397, -0.4564
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Suspension Bridge, located on The Embankment in Bedford, is a pedestrian bridge dated 1888 and designed by John Webster. It features a bow string lattice girder design with a span of 100 feet, constructed from iron. The ironwork was completed by E Page and Co of Bedford. The bridge deck is made of concrete, which is laid on corrugated iron plates by Westwood and Bailey. It has masonry abutments and two circular metal plates on the northern pillars. The eastern plate commemorates the opening by the Most Honourable the Marquess of Tavistock on 11th July 1888, with Joshua Hawkins Esq JP serving as mayor. The western plate notes that the engineer was John J Webster, a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and that the contractors were E Page & Co of Bedford, also from 1888.
Local climate
Suspension Bridge sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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