Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former canal overbridge
Pembrey and Burry Port Town, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 24 May 1996
- Locality
- Pembrey
- Community
- Pembrey and Burry Port Town
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.68684, -4.27561
- Cadw reference
- 16883
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located at the NW end of Ashburnham Road, 100m SW of the parish church.
History
The Kidwelly & Llanelly Canal was begun in 1812 and extended from Llanelli to Kymer's Canal (1769) on the E side of Kidwelly. Later the canal was taken over by the Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway and in 1869 it built a railway mainly on the bed of the old canal. The BP&GVR was taken over by the Great Western Railway in 1922. The railway closed in 1985. The bridge carries a road through the village and is shown on the 1839 Tithe map.
Exterior
Slightly skewed single-span, single-carriageway coursed-stone bridge, with freestone voussoirs to a 3-centred arch. A raised impost band is carried up over the arch. The parapet has plain copings and curves sharply outwards to square terminal piers. In the channel beneath the bridge is a raised course, or 'rubbing strake', defining the original level of water in the canal.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well preserved early C19 canal bridge, one of the few remaining in this area.
Nearby in the register
- Animal Pound at Pembrey ChurchAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Church of St IlltydReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding on S side of Court FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Court FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.