Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Bridgend Tramroad bridge over Nant Cynffig
Newcastle Higher, Bridgend, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Fountain, Newcastle Higher, Bridgend, designated on 1 April 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 1 April 1996
- Locality
- Fountain
- Community
- Newcastle Higher
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.53973, -3.60829
- Cadw reference
- 16839
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1907 · 248 Pontypridd (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1930 · OS Popular Edition 1919-1947 (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
Location
Located in the Nant Cynffig on a footpath leading N from Fountain Road, which crosses a railway line to Parc Slip Nature Park. The railway is immediately N of the bridge.
History
Built to carry the Bridgend Railway, a horse-drawn railway built between 1827 and 1830 between Bridgend and the Dyffryn Llynfi and Porthcawl Railway, which in turn linked the area with the harbour at Porthcawl. The engineer for the railway was John Hodgkinson, who began as principal assistant to Benjamin Outram and became a leading early railway engineer in his own right, responsible for several important lines in South Wales and the Midlands. The railway opened in 1830 and was absorbed into the South Wales Railway in 1861 but abandoned by 1864.
Exterior
Single-arched bridge of coursed rubble sandstone, which has a round arch with tooled voussoirs and quoins. The abutments are swept out slightly. Above the arch is a shallow string course. Originally there was no parapet, but timber posts and iron rails have been added.
Reason for designation
A rare example of an early railway bridge and an important component of the early industrial history of the district.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.