Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cook's Bridge
Rossett, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 18 October 1996
- Locality
- Allington
- Community
- Rossett
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.10046, -2.92418
- Cadw reference
- 17456
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
Cook's Bridge crosses the River Alyn to the south-east of Cooksbridge Farm roughly half a kilometre from Rossett Road.
Exterior
Earlier C19 large single-span ashlar stone bridge. Segmental arch with voussoirs and a keystone which projects into string course. Parapets are widely swept at either end to allow for waiting traffic; flat coping.
Reason for designation
Listed as an elegantly designed earlier C19 bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Cooksbridge FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hem HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Trevalyn FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Stable-block to NE of Trevalyn HospitalHealth and Welfareunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.