Wye Bridge (M48 Viaduct) is a Grade II listed building in the local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 May 1998. House.
Wye Bridge (M48 Viaduct)
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-hinge-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1998
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wye Bridge (M48 Viaduct), Beachley, Chepstow, Monmouthshire
- OS grid reference
- ST 542 912
- Coordinates
- 51.6181, -2.66175
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Wye Bridge, also known as the M48 Viaduct, is a cable-stayed bridge that crosses the River Wye and continues on piers over the Beachley peninsula. It has an overall length of 1,153 meters, with 408 meters dedicated to the Wye crossing, featuring a main span of 234 meters and two side spans. The bridge has a streamlined deck made of continuously welded steel torsional box construction, which is supported over the river by steel cable ties arranged in a single plane along the center-line of the bridge. This is carried by a pair of steel masts located above the piers. Each mast originally supported one set of cables but now carries two. The bridge includes open hand rails and stretched steel wire crash barriers. It is supported by slender, splayed inverted-U concrete piers on concrete beam foundations. The eastern sections of the bridge, including its extension over the Beachley peninsula, are located in England, specifically in the Tidenham parish of the Forest of Dean District.
Local climate
Wye Bridge (M48 Viaduct) receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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