Leather Tor Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Bridge.
Leather Tor Bridge
- WRENN ID
- carved-cloister-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1987
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Leather Tor Bridge, Walkhampton, West Devon
- OS grid reference
- SX 568 699
- Coordinates
- 50.51182, -4.01987
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leather Tor Bridge is a packhorse bridge that crosses the River Meavy. It was probably built in the 19th century and is constructed from roughly dressed granite blocks. The bridge features flat granite lintels that create two spans, and it has low parapets made of rough granite blocks.
Local climate
Leather Tor Bridge receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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