Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wern Bridge
Guilsfield, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Wern, Guilsfield, Powys, designated on 29 December 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 December 1994
- Locality
- Wern
- Community
- Guilsfield
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.71510, -3.10768
- Cadw reference
- 15438
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)
- 1899 · 151 Welshpool (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
Canal bridge No. 107 over the Montgomeryshire Canal.
History
c.1820-33, G Buck, Engineer.
Exterior
Stone coping brick abutments with later blue engineering brick chamfered vertical corners. Applied iron strips to protect corners on towpath. Bridge of five fish-bellied cast iron 'T'-joists with 170x40mm bottom flange, depth 210-280mm, the outer joist cast with pockets for timber guard rail, all bearing on stone padstones. Roadway carried on probably original 70mm x 305mm hardwood planks spanning between beams. No numbered identity plate. Canal revetted with concrete.
The course of the canal between Red Bridge and Wern Bridge is raised on a high embankment, the borrow pits along the canal having later been used for growing osiers, and as a source of puddling clay during the construction of the canal, and from 1824 as a source for brick earth
Reason for designation
One of a number of ironwork structures added during engineering improvements to the canal in early C19.
Nearby in the register
- Tanhouse BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Gauging Weir Structures at the Wern, Wern MillTransportunder 1 mi
- Wern Outfall Weir, Wern MillTransportunder 1 mi
- Land Owership Marker Post, Wern MillTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.