Torphichen Bridge is a Grade C listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 April 1979. Bridge.
Torphichen Bridge
- WRENN ID
- solemn-mullion-burdock
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Falkirk
- Constituency
- Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1979
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NS 954 735
- Coordinates
- 55.94378, -3.6753
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Torphichen Bridge is an early 19th century structure featuring a single span that is built at a considerable height above the water.
Local climate
Torphichen Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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