Castle Head Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1996. Bridge.
Castle Head Bridge
- WRENN ID
- half-mullion-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1996
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Castle Head Bridge, Lindale Road, Grange-Over-Sands
- OS grid reference
- SD 422 796
- Coordinates
- 54.20958, -2.88767
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Head Bridge is a bridge with sluice gates, built around 1800. It is constructed from limestone ashlar and rubble, featuring iron railings on the north parapet. The bridge has two segmental arches, with cutwaters that project to the north and south, each containing slots for sluice gates. The southern cutwaters are significantly taller than those on the north side. The solid parapets have bands located below their copings.
Historically, John Wilkinson, an ironmaster who owned the Castle Head estate, implemented a land drainage and improvement scheme starting in 1778. He was also involved with an early large-scale plan to enclose Morecambe Bay, which was never executed. The bridge is recognized as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Local climate
Castle Head 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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