Bridge No. 48, Union Canal is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 June 1980. Bridge.
Bridge No. 48, Union Canal
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-bonework-autumn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lothian
- Constituency
- Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1980
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NS 974 758
- Coordinates
- 55.96445, -3.64495
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bridge No. 48 on the Union Canal was designed by engineer Hugh Baird around 1820. It features a segmental arch and has a tall parapet. The structure is made of coursed bull-faced whinstone with stugged dressings, an ashlar string course, and a coped parapet. The keystone is inscribed with the number '48'.
Local climate
Bridge No. 48, Union Canal 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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