Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Limekiln to SW.of ruins of Caerbwdy Mill
St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Caerbwdy, St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, designated on 28 July 1992.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 28 July 1992
- Locality
- Caerbwdy
- Community
- St. David's and the Cathedral Close
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.87415, -5.24576
- Cadw reference
- 12661
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 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 209 St David's (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on hillside some 70m W of footbridge N of Caerbwdy Bay.
History
Kiln is said to have been built by 1815, and to stand on land owned by Bishops of Saint David's.
Scheduled Ancient Monument Pe 429.
Exterior
Late C18 or early C19 unusually large square limekiln built into bank by footpath. Approx 7m square, purple Caerbwdy rubble stone mixed with brown and grey boulders. High kiln-eyes of Dewisland type, with inward sloping heads to stone lintels. Open but overgrown crucible.
Nearby in the register
- Cottage, Mill and Lime Kiln at CaerbwdyMillunder 1 mi
- Caerfai CampPromontory Fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Clegyr UchafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Twr Y Felin (former Windmill Tower only)Industrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.