Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Three-Arch Aqueduct over Vyrnwy Flood Plain (Southern 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
- 52.77013, -3.10737
- Cadw reference
- 14204
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 B4398 road at Williams Bridge and the River Vyrnwy.
History
Constructed originally 1794-6 by John and Thomas Dadford, engineers of Cardiff and Newport, for the Montgomeryshire Canal Company but much repaired and totally refaced in blue brick in 1890 (stone date plaque set over the western face of the centre arch) by the Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company.
Exterior
Central core or red brick arches, blue brick facings with brick band above the arches, chamfered stone cappings. Three elliptical arches with central raking buttresses and sweeping abutments with stone pyramidal caps. Above each arch a pair of floreated terminals to tie-rods.
Reason for designation
Included for group value as an integral structure on the Montgomeryshire Canal adjacent to the Vyrnwy Aqueduct. It also demonstrates the structural development of canal engineering.
Nearby in the register
- Aqueduct carrying Montgomeryshire Canal over River VyrnwyWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Road Bridge over River VyrnwyTransportunder 1 mi
- Four-Arch Aqueduct over Vyrnwy Flood Plain (Northern Arches) New Bridge VyrnwyWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Former Salt Warehouse at NewbridgeCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.