Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barton's Bridge
Overton, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Knolton, Overton, Wrexham, designated on 27 February 1992.
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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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (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.