Cherryvalley Bridge, [south of Newtownards Road], Comber, Co Down, BT23 is a listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Cherryvalley Bridge, [south of Newtownards Road], Comber, Co Down, BT23
- WRENN ID
- silver-steel-autumn
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- J 467 691
- Coordinates
- 54.54913, -5.73312
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
The Cherryvalley Bridge is a sandstone railway bridge, built between 1848 and 1850, located south of Newtownards Road in Comber, County Down. It crosses a road and is now disused, neglected, and partially damaged, but appears structurally sound. The bridge features a single semicircular arch constructed with voussoirs, and has a brick intrados with a ‘spring’ band. Piers and curved retaining walls flank the arch on each face of the bridge, although the north face is largely hidden by vegetation. A course runs above the arch on the south face, and presumably also on the north face. The south parapet has lost much of its coping and has a modern concrete fence post against it, while the north parapet is heavily overgrown. The railway line has been removed and the track is now overgrown. The bridge formed part of the Belfast & County Down Railway, which connected Belfast, Comber, and Newtownards and opened in May 1850. The line was closed in 1953. The bridge is of industrial archaeological interest.
Local climate
Cherryvalley Bridge, [south of Newtownards Road], Comber, Co Down, BT23 sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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