Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Aberdulais Lock on Tennant Canal
Blaenhonddan, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Aberdulais, Neath, Blaenhonddan, Neath Port Talbot, designated on 29 January 1980.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 January 1980
- Locality
- Aberdulais
- Town
- Neath
- Community
- Blaenhonddan
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67879, -3.77669
- Cadw reference
- 11836
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 247 Swansea (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the W bank of the Afon Nedd between the Tennant Canal and the Aberdulais Aqueduct.
History
Canal lock, c 1823, the only one on the main line of the Tennant canal. Engineered by William Kirkhouse, the Tennant canal was begun in 1821 and the aqueduct across the River Neath at Aberdulais was begun in 1823. The canal opened in 1824 from the Neath Canal at Aberdulais to Port Tennant, Swansea.
Exterior
Lock chamber with parallel walls of coursed stone. Wooden lower lock gates survive intact. Rebate of upper lock gates remains but is replaced by a wall.
Reason for designation
Included as the only lock on the main line of the Tennant Canal and as part of a group of canal structures at Aberdulais of special architectural and historic interest.
Nearby in the register
- Lock keeper's and toll collector's office at SW end of Aberdulais AqueductTransportunder 1 mi
- Aberdulais Aqueduct (partly in Tonna community)Water Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Aberdulais Viaduct (partly in Tonna community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Aberdulais AqueductAqueductunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.