Olney Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1984. A C18 Bridge.
Olney Bridge
- WRENN ID
- dim-zinc-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1984
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Olney Bridge, Olney Road, Emberton
- OS grid reference
- SP 888 508
- Coordinates
- 52.14906, -0.7034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Olney Bridge is an 18th-century river bridge that was widened in 1975. It features rusticated ashlar stonework, with ashlar used for the parapets and arch soffits. The parapets are made of concrete, faced with ashlar and capped. The bridge has five arches, with the three central arches being segmental and adorned with rusticated voussoirs and masonry. The central arch is flanked by rusticated pilasters that rise from small cutwaters and extend above the string course at road level, tapering to stone coping. The abutments at the ends of the three central arches have three-sided projecting embrasures. The outer arches are smaller and semi-circular. At each end of the bridge, there is approximately 30 feet of walling that curves outward. The 1975 widening involved doubling the bridge's width and restoring the ashlar facings.
Local climate
Olney Bridge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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