Gogar Moor Bridge, Union Canal is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 March 1994. Bridge.
Gogar Moor Bridge, Union Canal
- WRENN ID
- secret-bastion-bracken
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 March 1994
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NT 156 704
- Coordinates
- 55.91988, -3.35125
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Gogar Moor Bridge, located on the Union Canal, was designed by engineer Hugh Baird around 1820. This single span bridge is constructed from coursed and squared rubble, featuring a stugged sandstone segmental arch. The arch has an advanced keystone inscribed with the number '14'. The bridge also includes a parapet that has a droved string course and ashlar coping.
Local climate
Gogar Moor Bridge, Union Canal sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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