Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bridge over Former Railway
Gwersyllt, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Gwersyllt, Wrexham, designated on 1 December 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 1 December 1995
- Community
- Gwersyllt
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.06302, -3.02421
- Cadw reference
- 16535
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Towards the junction of Highfield Road and Poolmouth Road, the bridge carries Highfield Road over the sunken bed of the former railway line next to Oakfield House.
History
Towards the junction of Highfield Road and Poolmouth Road, the bridge carries Highfield Road over the sunken bed of the former railway line next to Oakfield House.
The railway was the Brymbo branch of the Wrexham, Mold, and Connahs Quay Railway, which opened as far as the Moss and Pentre Station (serving Gatewen Colliery) in 1882.
Exterior
Slightly bellied cast-iron girders carry the road bed between rusticated stone abutments, surmounted by similarly rusticated piers. Parapets to either side are cast-iron railings, the curved braces to head and foot forming arcaded decoration.
Reason for designation
A good example of a late cast-iron bridge (the best surviving example of this type of construction in the area), and a significant relic of the former importance of the railway network in this area.
Nearby in the register
- HenblasDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stansty Park with attached Garden GatewayDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St PeterReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Gatewen HallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.