Former Towpath Bridge to Glamorganshire Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 May 2002. Bridge.
Former Towpath Bridge to Glamorganshire Canal
- WRENN ID
- wild-brick-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff North MP: Anna McMorrin (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 May 2002
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Former Towpath Bridge to Glamorganshire Canal, Whitchurch
- OS grid reference
- ST 141 799
- Coordinates
- 51.51194, -3.2379
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former towpath bridge to the Glamorganshire Canal is a cast-iron structure, likely with stone abutments, that once supported the towpath of the Monmouthshire Canal over an overflow leading to the tailrace of the Melingriffith Tinplate Works. The bridge features a cast iron roadway with trellis iron parapets, which have flat copings on both sides. It is located just north of the Melingriffith Lock and appears to be in its original position. The canal ran along the line of Ty-Mawr Road. A similar bridge can be found about 500 meters to the north, where a section of the canal still contains water.
Local climate
Former Towpath Bridge to Glamorganshire Canal sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% 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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