Avon Viaduct is a Grade A listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 October 1972. Viaduct.

Avon Viaduct

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Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Falkirk
Constituency
Falkirk MP: Euan Stainbank (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 October 1972
Type
Viaduct
OS grid reference
NS 980 769
Coordinates
55.9749, -3.6353
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Avon Viaduct is a significant railway structure that carries the main London and North Eastern Railway over the River Avon. It was opened in 1842 and features 20 arches, each spanning 50 feet and standing 92 feet above the water.

Local climate

Avon Viaduct sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% 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 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% 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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