Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Four-Arch Aqueduct over Vyrnwy Flood Plain (Northern Arches) New Bridge Vyrnwy
Carreghofa, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Carreghofa, Powys, designated on 5 April 1993.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 5 April 1993
- Community
- Carreghofa
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.77216, -3.10842
- Cadw reference
- 14203
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 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 137 Oswestry (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Sited between Carreghofa Locks and B4398 road which crosses the Montgomeryshire Canal at Williams Bridge.
History
Designed by John Dadford, canal engineer of Cardiff, between 1794-6, partly rebuilt by Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company about 1890 with metal tie-rods and brick arch-linings.
Exterior
Squared stone cappings and quoins, rubble facings, four round (rebuilt) blue brick arches with arch rings meeting (on both sides) at low, stepped cutwaters with pryamidal tops. Outer ends checked forward with curved abutments sloping down to low brick piers. Paired oval brace-plates to haunches of each arch.
Nearby in the register
- Three-Arch Aqueduct over Vyrnwy Flood Plain (Southern Arches) New Bridge VyrnwyWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Lock Gates and Paddle GearTransportunder 1 mi
- Lower Lock Chamber to W of No 1 THe LocksTransportunder 1 mi
- Lock-Keeper's Cottage adjoining Lower Lock Chamber on Montgomeryshire CanalDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.