Walker Bridge, Yeaman Place, Union Canal, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 February 1993. Bridge.

Walker Bridge, Yeaman Place, Union Canal, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
quartered-steeple-gorse
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 February 1993
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NT 239 724
Coordinates
55.9387, -3.21831
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Walker Bridge, designed by engineer David G Proudfoot and dated 1896, is a single span plate girder canal bridge over the Union Canal in Edinburgh. It features a pierced arcaded cast-iron parapet and ashlar end piers topped with ball finials. The soffit is supported by seven riveted beams. The bridge has squared and snecked sandstone rubble abutments with droved dressings, and there is a commemorative panel on the northeast pier.

Local climate

Walker Bridge, Yeaman Place, Union Canal, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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