High Wardses Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. A N/A Bridge. 1 related planning application.

High Wardses Bridge

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1984
Type
Bridge
Period
N/A
Address
High Wardses Bridge, Cautley Road, Sedbergh, Westmorland and Furness, LA10 5ND
OS grid reference
SD 695 959
Coordinates
54.35855, -2.47062
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

High Wardses Bridge is a private road bridge over the River Rawthey, likely built in the 18th century. It is constructed of roughly-coursed mixed rubble with sandstone copings. The bridge features a high, almost semicircular arch made of rubble voussoirs, and has slightly pitched parapets with flat coping. The deck is flat, and there is a 20th-century concrete flood channel at the west end.

Local climate

High Wardses Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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