Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bridge 123 over the Montgomeryshire Canal
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Belan, Welshpool, Powys, designated on 29 February 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 February 1996
- Locality
- Belan
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.62565, -3.17317
- Cadw reference
- 16741
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
Location
In the yard at Bank Farm, which is immediately W of the Carries Belan School Lane over the Montgomeryshire Canal.
Exterior
History: The Montgomeryshire Canal was built as far as Garthmyl, to the S of Welshpool, 1794-97, engineered by John and Thomas Dadford. In the 1880's and 1890's, the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company carried out an extensive programme of work on the canal, and it is likely that this bridge was rebuilt at this time, as a replica of the earlier design.
Description: Blue brick with stone copings to parapet. S single arched span, with slightly curving abutments, terminating in simple piers. Voussoir arch with advanced brick 'keystone'; plain string course defines the base of the parapet.
Included as a good example of a typical Montgomeryshire Canal Bridge from the late C19 phase of engineering.
Reference: Stephen Hughes, The Archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal, 1988.
Nearby in the register
- Llwynderw HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Llwynderw Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Llwynderw VillaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Plas TreheligDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.