Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bridge 121 over the Montgomeryshire Canal
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
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
- 52.63908, -3.16050
- Cadw reference
- 16742
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
Carries a by-road over the canal between the two locks at Belan.
Exterior
History: The Montgomeryshire Canal was built as far as Garthmyl, to the S of Welshpool, 1794-97, engineered by John and Thomas Dadford. This bridge (with some later repair work) belongs to this original engineering work.
Description: Brick with stone copings to parapet. S single arched span, with slightly curving abutments, terminating in simple piers. Voussoir arch with advanced brick 'keystone', and plain string course defining the base of the parapet.
Included as part of the original engineering of the canal, and as part of a group of canal structures at Belan Locks.
Reference: Stephen Hughes, The Archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal, 1988.
Nearby in the register
- No1 Limekiln CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- No2 Limekiln CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- No3 Limekiln CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- No4 Limekiln CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.