Bridge Over Mill Tailrace with Attached Obelisk is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1974. Bridge.

Bridge Over Mill Tailrace with Attached Obelisk

WRENN ID
last-brick-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1974
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
SK 216 687
Coordinates
53.21577, -1.67715
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a bridge built in the late 18th to early 19th century, located over the mill tailrace on Mill Street in Bakewell. It is constructed from dressed gritstone and features coursed limestone spandrels. The bridge has a shallow segmental arch that is only visible from one side, with a parapet on the downstream side. Below the parapet, there is a cambered and offset band made of large herringbone-dressed blocks. At the Mill Street end of the bridge, there is a short, stepped obelisk. The bridge spans the tailrace leading to Victoria Mill on Buxton Road, where the waters flow beneath the mill yard and emerge at this bridge.

Local climate

Bridge Over Mill Tailrace with Attached Obelisk sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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