Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Aberpergwm Aqueduct over Neath Canal
Glynneath, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Aberpergwm, Neath, Glynneath, Neath Port Talbot, designated on 28 March 1980.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 28 March 1980
- Locality
- Aberpergwm
- Town
- Neath
- Community
- Glynneath
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.73980, -3.64732
- Cadw reference
- 11842
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 231 Merthyr Tydfil (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Crossing the Neath Canal on the N side of the B4242 some 600 W of its junction with Chain Road.
History
Aqueduct of c1835 carrying the Nant Ysgwrfa over the Neath Canal, one of a series of cast-iron troughs using large pieces of cast-iron cast at the Neath Abbey Ironworks, this one having the ironworks name and date (eroded) stamped. Very similar to the Farmer's Arms aqueduct near Resolven.
Exterior
Aqueduct, cast-iron trough with decorated side panels. The side panels have half-columns of Roman Doric type between 5 panels with raised borders and quadrant-curved rebates at angles. There are two long panels alternated with 3 short panels. Centre of one side has 'NEATH ABBEY GLAMORGANSHIRE 183?' in raised letters. The trough is carried on piers of squared stone, the SW one with finely worked curved front, as were possibly all four, the NW one overgrown, the E ones altered for parallel road bridge. The two E ones carry tall square piers with flat caps. Stone-cobbles spillway on downstream side.
Reason for designation
Included as one of the remarkable series of cast-iron aqueducts made at the Neath Abbey Ironworks.
Nearby in the register
- Bridge at lock on Neath Canal N of Yscwrfa BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Aberpergwm HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gates across driveway at Aberpergwm HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Memorial to Jane Williams in the churchyarde of the Church of Saint CadocCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.