Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Foot Bridge to old Castle, Hawarden Castle Estate
Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Hawarden, Flintshire, designated on 2 July 1962.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 2 July 1962
- Community
- Hawarden
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.18133, -3.01873
- Cadw reference
- 16
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
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)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
To the S of the New Castle spanning a dry ditch, until 1804 the course of the Chester-Holyhead road.
Exterior
A small and elegant bridge of ashlar built in 1771 (inscription). Single-span segmental arch with moulded archivolt and finely dentilated and moulded cornice. Plain parapet, raised to W. Flanking buttresses to the Arch.
Reason for designation
Group value with the Old Castle.
Nearby in the register
- Hawarden Castle (Old)Defenceunder 1 mi
- Tea Pavilion, Hawarden Castle EstateDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hawarden CastleCastleunder 1 mi
- 75m Section of Kitchen Wall to NW of New CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.