Packsaddle Bridge Beside Dent Head Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1987. Bridge.
Packsaddle Bridge Beside Dent Head Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-pavement-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1987
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Packsaddle Bridge Beside Dent Head Viaduct, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 777 843
- Coordinates
- 54.25466, -2.34244
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Packsaddle Bridge is an 18th-century packhorse bridge located beside Dent Head Viaduct in Dentdale. It is constructed of sandstone rubble and features a low segmental arch made up of one ring of narrow rubble voussoir stones. The bridge carries a grassy track and creates a striking contrast with the nearby Dent Head Viaduct, which rises approximately 10 meters to the west as part of the Settle to Carlisle railway line.
Local climate
Packsaddle Bridge Beside Dent Head Viaduct sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 69 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 45 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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