Llanthony Swing Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Gloucester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 2003. Railway bridge.
Llanthony Swing Bridge
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-corbel-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gloucester
- Constituency
- Gloucester MP: Alex McIntyre (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 2003
- Type
- Railway bridge
- Address
- Llanthony Swing Bridge, Llanthony Road
- OS grid reference
- SO 823 182
- Coordinates
- 51.86254, -2.25816
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Llanthony Swing Bridge is a railway swing bridge built in 1910, based on designs from the Great Western Railway dating back to 1890. It features a plate-girder steel structure that pivots on a drum located on the southeastern bank and rests on two cylindrical iron-clad piers on the northwestern side of the river. These iron-clad piers may be remnants of the earlier swing bridge designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel between 1852 and 1854 for the Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway, which later became part of the South Wales Railway. The abutments of the bridge are made of stone and brick, and it extends onto the northwestern bank as a causeway supported by stone and brick piers. A later footbridge is attached to the northeastern side. The swing bridge was originally powered hydraulically from Gloucester Docks and was essential for allowing ships to pass through the East Channel of the River Severn. Currently, the bridge is fixed and no longer functions as a swing bridge.
Local climate
Llanthony Swing Bridge receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% 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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