Pickhill Meadows Suspension Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. Suspension bridge.
Pickhill Meadows Suspension Bridge
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-gutter-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wrexham
- Constituency
- Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Type
- Suspension bridge
- Address
- Pickhill Meadows Suspension Bridge, Willington Worthenbury
- OS grid reference
- SJ 407 470
- Coordinates
- 53.01725, -2.88462
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Pickhill Meadows Suspension Bridge is a Grade II listed steel suspension bridge featuring hollow lattice truss construction and steel-wire cable suspension. It has a span of 41 metres and a single lane deck that is 3 metres wide. At either end of the bridge, paired lattice towers support the cables, with the lattice frames hung below. Transverse members connect to support the timber deck. The towers are tapered and topped with ball and spike finials, while their lower portions, up to handrail level, are now encased in supporting concrete. Each side of the bridge has a pair of steel wire ropes, totaling four ropes, which run through tubular suspenders that have a flat link section secured with two heavy rivets. The bulky anchor point clasps at each corner are stamped ‘ROWELL LONDON’. The portal trusses feature a shallow arch below and are flat above, with zigzag girders between.
Local climate
Pickhill Meadows Suspension Bridge receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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