Bridge over Neath Canal at Farmer's Arms Lock is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 December 2003. Bridge.
Bridge over Neath Canal at Farmer's Arms Lock
- WRENN ID
- watchful-wicket-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Neath and Swansea East MP: Carolyn Harris (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 15 December 2003
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Bridge over Neath Canal at Farmer's Arms Lock, Resolven
- OS grid reference
- SN 824 029
- Coordinates
- 51.71334, -3.70289
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a canal bridge built into a former canal lock to the northeast. It is constructed from rubble stone and features a single segmental arch made of dressed sandstone voussoirs. The parapets have cement coping, which is longer on the southwest side, while the southeast ends slope down to the path level.
Local climate
Bridge over Neath Canal at Farmer's Arms Lock sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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