Rawthey Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Railway bridge.

Rawthey Bridge

WRENN ID
stony-entrance-martin
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
Railway bridge
Address
Rawthey Bridge, Brigflatts, Sedbergh, Westmorland and Furness
OS grid reference
SD 643 908
Coordinates
54.31237, -2.55022
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rawthey Bridge is a railway bridge over the River Rawthey, now no longer in use. It was built between 1857 and 1861 for the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Company. The bridge is constructed from rusticated rock-faced sandstone, wrought iron, and cast iron. It features a single span with stone abutments and piers that have chamfered angles and Doric entablatures. These support four parallel segmental iron arches, which are adorned with arcaded spandrels. The original iron parapet, which had ball-joints, is now missing.

Local climate

Rawthey Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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