Roving Bridge over Neath Canal at Giant's Grave is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 2000. Bridge.
Roving Bridge over Neath Canal at Giant's Grave
- WRENN ID
- inner-rafter-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 May 2000
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Roving Bridge over Neath Canal at Giant's Grave, Briton Ferry
- OS grid reference
- SS 735 948
- Coordinates
- 51.63823, -3.82895
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Roving Bridge over the Neath Canal at Giant's Grave is a single-span bridge. The original stonework is made of snecked rubble, while the restoration features random rubble. The bridge has a segmental arch constructed with tooled voussoirs and larger dressed quoins. The parapet has been updated with flat stone copings. The hump-backed deck is surfaced with concrete and extends on the south side to create ramped approaches. On the west side, the parapet of the approach slopes down to ground level next to the canal.
Local climate
Roving Bridge over Neath Canal at Giant's Grave sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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