Moredon Aqueduct is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1986. Aqueduct.
Moredon Aqueduct
- WRENN ID
- open-wattle-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon North MP: Will Stone (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- Type
- Aqueduct
- Address
- Moredon Aqueduct, Haydon Wick
- OS grid reference
- SU 113 878
- Coordinates
- 51.58922, -1.83708
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moredon Aqueduct is an aqueduct built to carry the North Wilts Canal over the River Ray, constructed between 1813 and 1819. It features three brick culverts, each consisting of one brick ring. The structure has a stone string above and high walls built in English bond, with end piers and curved wing walls. It is topped with stone copings. As of June 1985, the aqueduct was derelict, with the downstream wall partially collapsed. This aqueduct is the only significant monument of the canal that connected the Wilts and Berks Canal at Swindon to the Thames and Severn Canal at Latton, greatly facilitating navigation from the west to London while avoiding the upper Thames.
Local climate
Moredon Aqueduct receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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