Bridge No. 39, Philpstoun, Union Canal is a Grade C listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 June 1980.

Bridge No. 39, Philpstoun, Union Canal

WRENN ID
buried-wattle-mint
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
West Lothian
Constituency
Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 June 1980
OS grid reference
NT 054 768
Coordinates
55.97518, -3.51743
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a canal bridge, dating to around 1820 and engineered by Hugh Baird. It features a single segmental arch constructed from stugged ashlar, with slab copings. The keystones are numbered. The Union Canal, of which this bridge is a part, is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, designated as SAM No. 4170 on 15 December 2003. The bridge is located at Philpstoun Station, on the Union Canal, and is identified as Bridge 39.

Local climate

Bridge No. 39, Philpstoun, Union Canal receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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