Great Bow Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. Bridge.

Great Bow Bridge

WRENN ID
floating-corridor-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 April 1959
Type
Bridge
Address
Great Bow Bridge, Bow Street, A 378, Curry Rivel
OS grid reference
ST 415 266
Coordinates
51.03612, -2.83477
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Great Bow Bridge is a road bridge over the River Parrett, completed in 1841. It is constructed from local lias stone ashlar and features three wide elliptical arches, each with impost courses and keystones. Above the arches is a band course, leading to a plain parapet that extends into long wing walls at each end. The center of the bridge has a gentle hump. The bridge was first mentioned in 1220 and was last rebuilt by the Parrett Navigation Company, with assistance from the corporation.

Local climate

Great Bow Bridge receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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