Footbridge Over River Bela Approximately 400 Metres East-North-East of Milnthorpe Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1962. Footbridge.
Footbridge Over River Bela Approximately 400 Metres East-North-East of Milnthorpe Bridge
- WRENN ID
- high-bronze-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1962
- Type
- Footbridge
- OS grid reference
- SD 493 814
- Coordinates
- 54.22592, -2.77865
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The footbridge over the River Bela, located approximately 400 meters east-north-east of Milnthorpe Bridge, is a former road bridge that has been converted into a footbridge. It was built in 1730 by mason Robert Robinson and waller Robert Bindloss. The structure is made of stone rubble and features roughly cut copings and voussoirs. It has two segmental arches and cutwaters with pedestrian refuges situated between them. The carriageway is 12 feet wide. The bridge has landscape value and was closed to traffic in 1813 when a new turnpike road was established. Further details and maps of the old and new roads can be found in J.F. Curwen's "Records of Kendal" published in 1926 and "History of Heversham with Milnthorpe" published in 1930.
Local climate
Footbridge Over River Bela Approximately 400 Metres East-North-East of Milnthorpe Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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