Oxford Canal Tilting Bridge Approximately 750 Metres South of Pigeons Lock is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1987. Bridge.
Oxford Canal Tilting Bridge Approximately 750 Metres South of Pigeons Lock
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-obsidian-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1987
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- SP 487 186
- Coordinates
- 51.86417, -1.29293
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Oxford Canal Tilting Bridge, located approximately 750 meters south of Pigeons Lock, is a late 18th-century structure designed by James Brindley and restored in 1983. It features a wooden bridge supported by brick walls that include some stone details. The bridge is flat and incorporates long raking counterweight beams, which were added during the 1983 restoration. The splayed embankment walls are made of purple brick and have stone and bullnosed red-brick copings that slope away from the bridge. Additionally, large rusticated stone blocks are set into the brickwork beneath the bridge to serve as fenders.
Local climate
Oxford Canal Tilting Bridge Approximately 750 Metres South of Pigeons Lock sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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