Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Foot Bridge to old Castle, Hawarden Castle Estate
Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales
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.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "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).
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.