Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barton's Bridge
Overton, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 27 February 1992
- Locality
- Knolton
- Community
- Overton
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.95585, -2.96294
- Cadw reference
- 1741
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Carries the B5069 across the Shell Brook which forms the border between Wales and England and the counties of Clwyd and Shropshire. On a bend in the road, approximately 4km SW of Overton.
History
Said to have been built in 1819 by Thomas Telford, then County Surveyor for Shropshire - a datestone is referred to by Blackwall, but is no longer visible.
Exterior
Coursed and dressed sandstone bridge with single, round-headed arch and rusticated voussoirs flanked by distinctively tall and battered abutments that are stepped to the top; string course above. Railings removed to slightly undulating coped parapets which terminate in trapezoidal piers; parapet to downstream side curves out at both ends.
Reason for designation
A good example of a small stone arched bridge.
Also listed of a small stone arched bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Knolton HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- GwaliaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gwalia FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Byre/Stable Range at Gwalia FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.