David Livingstone Memorial Footbridge, River Clyde, Blantyre is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971.

David Livingstone Memorial Footbridge, River Clyde, Blantyre

WRENN ID
fallow-wattle-tallow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Rutherglen MP: Michael Shanks (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1971
OS grid reference
NS 696 584
Coordinates
55.80193, -4.08162
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The David Livingstone Memorial Footbridge, erected in 1952, spans the River Clyde at Blantyre. It is a double cantilever bridge designed by engineers Bone, Connell and Baxters.

Local climate

David Livingstone Memorial Footbridge, River Clyde, Blantyre sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% 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 0.2°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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