Glenedra Bridge, Glenedra Road, Glenedra, Feeny, Co Londonderry is a listed building in the Causeway Coast and Glens local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Glenedra Bridge, Glenedra Road, Glenedra, Feeny, Co Londonderry
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-column-alder
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Constituency
- East Londonderry MP: Mr Gregory Campbell (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- C 706 003
- Coordinates
- 54.84561, -6.9007
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is a simple, well-constructed, low segmental arch bridge carrying Glenedra Road across the Glenedra Water, also known as Crooked Burn. The bridge likely dates from between 1860 and 1879, replacing an earlier structure built around 1820 when the Glenedra Road itself was constructed as a "very useful new road" according to John McCloskey.
The bridge is a single arch, with a span of 6¼ metres. The arch is faced with large, well-shaped rectangular voissoirs, and the soffit is finished with daubed mortar. The bridge’s walls are constructed of random rubble stonework. Repairs appear to have been carried out on the downstream side, with rendering applied to square off the wall. The parapet wall is 18½ metres long on each side, returning at each end to form a straight buttress. The carriageway is 6½ metres wide, and the parapet is topped with large, well-formed hogsback sandstone coping stones. The bridge has a very low appearance due to the lack of supporting walls beneath the arch, making it appropriately suited to the wild landscape.
The Glenedra Road is straight and almost level at this crossing point, and the river turns nearly at right angles to pass underneath. The river banks on the upstream side are strengthened with random rubble walls. Downstream of the bridge, a picnic area is situated alongside the beginnings of Banagher forest. The bridge is of industrial archaeological interest.
Local climate
Glenedra Bridge, Glenedra Road, Glenedra, Feeny, Co Londonderry sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow 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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