Bridge No. 85 Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 December 2005. Bridge.

Bridge No. 85 Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal

WRENN ID
second-slate-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 December 2005
Type
Bridge
Address
Bridge No. 85 Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal, Abergavenny, Llanover
OS grid reference
SO 300 091
Coordinates
51.7766, -3.01464
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Bridge No. 85 is an accommodation and access bridge over the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal. It features a semi-elliptical arch made of voussoirs and is constructed from squared, faced, and coursed local sandstone. The bridge has a parapet with slab coping and curving abutments. The bridge number is displayed on the south face of the arch, and the towpath runs beneath the bridge arch on the east side.

Local climate

Bridge No. 85 Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal 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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