Ling Ghyll Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1958. Bridge.
Ling Ghyll Bridge
- WRENN ID
- spare-soffit-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1958
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Ling Ghyll Bridge, Horton in Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SD 803 789
- Coordinates
- 54.20578, -2.30349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ling Ghyll Bridge is a bridge located on a pre-turnpike road in Horton in Ribblesdale. It was rebuilt in 1765 and is constructed of rubble with stone dressing. The bridge features a single span segmental arch and has a raked string course of dressed stone along the parapet, topped with rubble coping. There is a small wing wall on the northwest side. On the north wall, there is a panel inscribed with the words: "ANNO 1765 TIiYS BRIDGE WAS REPAIR ED AT THE CHARGE OF THE WHOLE W EST RIDEING."
Local climate
Ling Ghyll Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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