Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Park Wall Flanking Railings at Driveway entrance to Cyfarthfa Castle
Park, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 15 July 1974
- Community
- Park
- Unitary authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.75408, -3.39094
- Cadw reference
- 11401
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Two sections of boundary wall flanking the main road.
History
Probably ca 1825 and built with the entrance gates and lodges.
Exterior
Rough stonework with castellated cappings to match outer turrets of entrance railings. Left-hand section of wall extends NW to a point close to road junction with the Gurnos road and directly opposite the NW end of the park lake. Right-hand section of wall extends SE as far as the bus lay-by on N side of road above Williamstown.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with other listed items at Cyfarthfa Castle park and Pandy Farm.
Nearby in the register
- Gatepiers at Driveway entrance to Cyfarthfa CastelDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pandy FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Railings at Driveway entrance to Cyfarthfa CastleGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Clock Tower at Pandy FarmGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.