Back Station Road Aqueduct, Union Canal, Linlithgow is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1992. Aqueduct.

Back Station Road Aqueduct, Union Canal, Linlithgow

WRENN ID
sharp-lintel-poplar
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
West Lothian
Constituency
Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 March 1992
Type
Aqueduct
OS grid reference
NT 005 770
Coordinates
55.97589, -3.59501
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Back Station Road Aqueduct, located on the Union Canal in Linlithgow, was engineered by Hugh Baird around 1820. It features a segmental arch and a tall parapet. The structure is made of cream sandstone stugged rubble, with brick repairs to the arch and ashlar coping.

Local climate

Back Station Road Aqueduct, Union Canal, Linlithgow 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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