Bridge Over Ford Near Parish Church is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. Bridge.

Bridge Over Ford Near Parish Church

WRENN ID
open-oriel-moss
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Canterbury
Constituency
Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1980
Type
Bridge
Address
Bridge Over Ford Near Parish Church, Old Palace Road, Bekesbourne-With-Patrixbourne, CT4 5ES
OS grid reference
TR 194 555
Coordinates
51.25675, 1.14324
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a single-arched red brick bridge, dated 1776, located over a ford near the parish church in Bekesbourne. It features stone coping, and there is an inscription on the south-west side, although it is now indecipherable.

Local climate

Bridge Over Ford Near Parish Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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