Bridge No. 22, Union Canal is a Grade C listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 March 1984.
Bridge No. 22, Union Canal
- WRENN ID
- eternal-sentry-tide
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lothian
- Constituency
- Livingston MP: Gregor Poynton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1984
- OS grid reference
- NT 088 712
- Coordinates
- 55.92532, -3.45969
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a bridge, constructed around 1820 as part of the Union Canal. The engineer was Hugh Baird. It features a segmental arch constructed with coursers and slab copings. Numbers are inscribed on the keystones. The Union Canal is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, designated as SAM No. 4170 on 15 December 2003. The bridge’s statutory address is Union Canal Bridge 22, at Learielaw.
Local climate
Bridge No. 22, Union Canal sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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