Morfa Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 January 1980. Bridge.

Morfa Bridge

WRENN ID
dim-foundation-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 January 1980
Type
Bridge
Address
Morfa Bridge, Landore
OS grid reference
SS 663 954
Coordinates
51.64164, -3.93225
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Morfa Bridge is an iron and timber bascule bridge built in 1909 to connect the Morfa and Upper Bank Works across the River Tawe. It features stone abutments made of coursed rubble with raked revetment walls, and it has raised twin piers topped with pyramidal cappings. The bridge has a timber deck with modern handrails, supported by braced timber piers with raked supports. The wider central bay has a square timber pier on the western bank that supports an ironwork girder frame for the counterpoised lifting deck, which was originally powered by hydraulic means but is now fixed. The bridge is also designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Local climate

Morfa Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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