Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Haroldstone Bridge (partly in Merlins Bridge community)
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, designated on 1 July 1974.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 1 July 1974
- Town
- Haverfordwest
- Community
- Haverfordwest
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.79484, -4.96108
- Cadw reference
- 12054
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)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 228 Haverfordwest (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at Haroldston, some 400m SE down lane from Priory Courts, the former workhouse, Union Hill.
History
Road bridge over the Merlin's Brook, probably early to mid C19.
Exterior
Single-arched road bridge with well-hade segmental arch with rock-faced stone voussoirs and raised grey limestone flat band over. Unusually high flat parapets with squared end-on coping stones, boundary stone with eroded inscription built into W parapet. Parapets are ramped down at ends on SE, SW and NE ends.
Reason for designation
Included for its special historic interest as a well-made small arched road bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Haroldston Bridge (partly in Haverfordwest community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Haroldston CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Haroldston House and GardensHouse (domestic)under 1 mi
- Higgon's WellReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.