Popular Bridge ( Canal Bridge no 87 ) is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 March 1996. Walled garden.
Popular Bridge ( Canal Bridge no 87 )
- WRENN ID
- stony-spindle-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1996
- Type
- Walled garden
- Address
- Popular Bridge ( Canal Bridge no 87 ), Llanover, Llanfoist Fawr
- OS grid reference
- SO 300 094
- Coordinates
- 51.77911, -3.01542
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Popular Bridge, also known as Canal Bridge No 87, was built between 1809 and 1812 as part of the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal, which aimed to connect the upper Usk valley to the Monmouthshire Canal at Pontymoile. The canal was initially promoted in 1792, with construction starting in 1797 under engineer Thomas Dadford. The bridge is made of coursed rubble and features a roughly squared design, spanning the canal and the tow-path to the east. It has a segmental arch with a keystone, and the parapets curve outward with end pilaster buttresses. This bridge is significant as one of the few remaining early 19th-century bridges from the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal.
Local climate
Popular Bridge ( Canal Bridge no 87 ) receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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