Victoria Bridge, Charlestown Of Aberlour is a Grade A listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 October 1986. Bridge.

Victoria Bridge, Charlestown Of Aberlour

WRENN ID
riven-trefoil-rook
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 October 1986
Type
Bridge
OS grid reference
NJ 262 429
Coordinates
57.47038, -3.23168
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Victoria Bridge in Charlestown of Aberlour is a suspension footbridge built in 1902 by engineers and builders James Abernethy from Aberdeen, with James Lawrence from Craigellachie as the contractor. The bridge features a cast-iron lattice-girder span that is supported by main cables made of wire rope. At each end, there are lattice-girder pylons topped with ball and spike finials. The approximate span of the bridge is 320 feet.

Local climate

Victoria Bridge, Charlestown Of Aberlour 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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