Avon and Gloucestershire Tramway, Retaining Walls and Junction with California Incline, Causeway and Bridge Over Siston Brook Near Cherry Garden Lane is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1981. Infrastructure.
Avon and Gloucestershire Tramway, Retaining Walls and Junction with California Incline, Causeway and Bridge Over Siston Brook Near Cherry Garden Lane
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-bonework-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- North East Somerset and Hanham MP: Dan Norris (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1981
- Type
- Infrastructure
- Address
- Avon and Gloucestershire Tramway, Retaining Walls and Junction with California Incline, Causeway and Bridge Over Siston Brook Near Cherry Garden Lane, Oldland
- OS grid reference
- ST 668 709
- Coordinates
- 51.43619, -2.47889
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Avon and Gloucestershire Tramway features retaining walls and a junction with the California Incline, along with a causeway and bridge over Siston Brook, located near Cherry Garden Lane. Opened in 1832, with the California Junction established in 1869, this impressive embankment is made of pennant stone and stretches about 200 yards long. The California Incline Railway intersects this structure at an angle and consists of a raised causeway approximately 20 feet high, which is buttressed on the south side and crosses Siston Brook via a plain arch. The parapet of the causeway includes a soldier course. The tramway was closed in 1904 and is significant for its remains, which include wharfs near Londonderry Farm and Avonside.
Local climate
Avon and Gloucestershire Tramway, Retaining Walls and Junction with California Incline, Causeway and Bridge Over Siston Brook Near Cherry Garden Lane receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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