Clapper Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 2000. Bridge.
Clapper Bridge
- WRENN ID
- stark-mortar-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 2000
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Clapper Bridge, Holmesfield, North East Derbyshire
- OS grid reference
- SK 278 741
- Coordinates
- 53.26394, -1.5843
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clapper Bridge, dated 1742 and 1777, is located in Baslow and Bubnell. It consists of two monolithic gritstone slabs that are 3 metres long, 600 millimetres wide, and 250 millimetres deep. These slabs are set upon coursed rubble stone linings and span the Bar Brook. Slab bridges like this are relatively rare and represent some of the most primitive masonry bridge structures, often dating back to ancient times. The bridge is situated near several Scheduled Ancient Monument sites in the surrounding moorland of Big Moor and Ramsey Moor, and it is part of the packhorse route system that connects areas such as Tideswell, Chesterfield, Sheffield, and Dronfield.
Local climate
Clapper Bridge receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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