Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wig Bridge
Caersws, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Carnedd, Caersws, Powys, designated on 5 November 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 5 November 1996
- Locality
- Carnedd
- Town
- Caersws
- Community
- Caersws
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.52274, -3.45161
- Cadw reference
- 17551
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)
- 1899 · 164 Llanidloes (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located on Wig Lane, which connects the main A.470 Caersws to Machynlleth road to the B4569 from Caersws to Trefeglwys, approximately 1.75Km N of Caersws centre.
History
Built 1847, to design by Thomas Penson the County Surveyor for Montgomeryshire, to replace two smaller bridges over the River Garno.
Exterior
Built of local squared and coursed rubble. A single segmental arch having one ring of chamfered projecting voussoirs with central keystone rising to the square string following the camber of the road. Three-course parapet with flush copings each side, having scattered through stones projecting with rock-faced ends. The ends of the bridge are splayed, and the parapets end in terminal piers.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of a small masonry bridge of the mid C19, still in its original condition.
Nearby in the register
- Milestone S of Weig LaneTransportunder 1 mi
- Pen-y-borfa fawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Milestone W of villageTransportunder 1 mi
- Caersws Roman roadRoadunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.