Parish Crag Bridge Over Swindale Beck is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Packhorse bridge.
Parish Crag Bridge Over Swindale Beck
- WRENN ID
- first-arch-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- Packhorse bridge
- Address
- Parish Crag Bridge Over Swindale Beck, Shap Rural, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 535 159
- Coordinates
- 54.53636, -2.71972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Parish Crag Bridge is a packhorse bridge, likely built in the 18th century. It features an arch made of sandstone voussoirs with slate packing. The bridge has a single segmental arch that spans approximately 20 feet. The pathway is about 2½ feet wide and has parapets that are around 3 feet high, which are splayed at the north end.
Local climate
Parish Crag Bridge Over Swindale Beck sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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