Arch Connecting Wood Walks from Hermitage Wood to Long Wood is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1991. Tunnel.

Arch Connecting Wood Walks from Hermitage Wood to Long Wood

WRENN ID
sleeping-spindle-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Gloucestershire
Constituency
Filton and Bradley Stoke MP: Claire Hazelgrove (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 March 1991
Type
Tunnel
Address
Arch Connecting Wood Walks from Hermitage Wood to Long Wood, Stoke Gifford
OS grid reference
ST 617 775
Coordinates
51.49581, -2.55212
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The arch connecting wood walks from Hermitage Wood to Long Wood is a Grade II listed tunnel built around 1750 by Thomas Wright. It is made of limestone and serves as a short pedestrian tunnel that links footpaths within the landscaped grounds of Stoke Park Dower House. The tunnel features a coursed limestone vault with some remains of vermiculated voussoirs and keystones, which are partly intact and partly on the ground. At the time of inspection in July 1988, the area was considerably overgrown. The tunnel runs beneath a carriageway that passes above it, connecting Hermitage Wood and Long Wood.

Local climate

Arch Connecting Wood Walks from Hermitage Wood to Long Wood receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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