Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Land Owership Marker Post, Wern Mill
Llandrinio, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llandrinio, Powys, designated on 29 December 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 December 1994
- Community
- Llandrinio
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.71992, -3.10937
- Cadw reference
- 15442
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
History
Over flow weir for surplus water from the Montgomeryshire Canal, S of Burgedin Lock, located between the NE side of the canal. Before 1797 for the Montgomeryshire Canal Co. John Dadford, Engineer.
Exterior
Oval red and blue brick revetted pond receiving culverted water from the canal, with weir and spillway with central flume controlled by ratchet paddle, leading to the turbine race ending in a 3.6m deep vertical fall shaft of the former corn mill. Alongside, a subsidiary spillway and a 450m parabolic blue by-pass channel.
Reason for designation
One of a number of canal structures on the Montgomeryshire Canal at Wern Mill of forming a group of special interest.
Nearby in the register
- Wern Outfall Weir, Wern MillTransportunder 1 mi
- Red Bridge, Wern MillTransportunder 1 mi
- Gauging Weir Structures at the Wern, Wern MillTransportunder 1 mi
- Operating GearTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.