Cardington Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Bridge.
Cardington Bridge
- WRENN ID
- long-tower-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Cardington Bridge, Bedford Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 083 483
- Coordinates
- 52.12313, -0.41886
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cardington Bridge is a bridge built in 1778, with inscriptions on the keystones that read "T. Smeaton, Eng."; "S.W. 1778" (for Samuel Whitbread); and "J. Green, Surv.". The structure is made of various types of brick, with stone keystones and parapet copings. It features five segmental arches and has cutwaters on both sides. The end piers of the parapet are topped with shallow stone pyramids.
Local climate
Cardington 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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