Road Bridge to the North of Milford Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1993. Bridge.

Road Bridge to the North of Milford Cottage

WRENN ID
still-belfry-azure
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 April 1993
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
SD 299 797
Coordinates
54.20888, -3.07591
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The road bridge to the north of Milford Cottage is a late 18th-century structure that has undergone some alterations in the 20th century. It is built from rubble green Lakeland stone, arranged in courses. The bridge features a double segmental arch that spans the Newland Beck, with the arches and a central cutwater pier originating from bedrock. It has shallow parapet walls with splayed abutments, although many of the original copings have been replaced with concrete capping. The abutment wall on the north-east side rises to follow the increasing ground level on the north side of the beck. This bridge carries a track over the beck, located next to the spillway of the weir that directs water to power the blowing engine of the Newland Furnace.

Local climate

Road Bridge to the North of Milford Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,650 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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