Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Footbridge adjacent to Road Bridge
St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 28 July 1992
- Locality
- Porthclais
- Community
- St. David's and the Cathedral Close
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.87056, -5.28340
- Cadw reference
- 12683
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated immediately N of roadbridge where River Alun discharges into Porthclais harbour.
History
Uncertain date.
Exterior
Clapper bridge of ancient type over River Alun with large slabs of stone laid over two rubble stone piers with upstream cutwaters. The centre spanned by an especially large slab of some 3m length. Iron handrail added in C20.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.