Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Welshpool Town Lock
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 11 March 1981
- Locality
- Welshpool
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.65827, -3.14539
- Cadw reference
- 16729
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
Immediately S of the Powysland Museum.
Exterior
History: The eastern arm of the Montgomeryshire Canal was constructed as far as Garthmyl to the S of Welshpool between 1794 and 1797; John and Thomas Dadford, engineers. The lock forms part of the original engineering work of the canal, with subsequent repairs (the gates were most recently renewed in 1973).
Description: Blue brick lining to lock chamber, with stone dressings. Similar brickwork and stone copings to the lower retaining wall of the platform on the W side of the lock. A plank foot bridge with plain wrought iron rail spans the lock at its lower end.
A significant component of the engineering work of the Montgomeryshire Canal, and part of a group of canal structures at Welshpool town wharf.
Reference: Stephen Hughes, The Archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal, 1988.
Nearby in the register
- Powysland Museum (Town Wharf Warehouse)Educationunder 1 mi
- Cottage 2Domesticunder 1 mi
- Cottage 1 (Canal Agent Office)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Dolanog CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.