Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bridge and Causeway to Former Quarry at Chwarel-y-Fedw.
Dolwyddelan, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 17 February 1997
- Locality
- Brynmoel
- Community
- Dolwyddelan
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.05669, -3.87361
- Cadw reference
- 18250
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Located some 1500m NE of Dolwyddelan village, between the main road (A 470) and the railway track, on the SE bank of the river Lledr.
History
Mid-late C19 clapper-built causeway, originally carrying a narrow-gauge rail-link from the Chwarel-y-Fedw slate Quarry to the road; modern timber-faced, steel framed bridge over the Afon Lledr. The railway, completed in 1879 apparently post-dates it.
Exterior
Slate-rubble causeway, approximately 230m long, and stretching in an arc from the road, across the river Lledr and on, terminating at the railway line. The first stretch, to the river is the longest, approximately 180m; this has a 9-span clapper section at the river end; constructed of large slatestone slabs, and with cutwaters to the upstream, convex side. The opposite side of the river has a similar 10-span clapper section; these rise slightly in the middle and are joined across the river by a modern timber bridge. The causeway is approximately 1.2m high and 1.8m wide; it is of dry-built, random rubble construction and has a metalled footpath and (in part) a C20 wire fence.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special historic interest as an unusually long clapper-built bridge and causeway serving a former slate quarry.
Nearby in the register
- Former Dairy-house at Bryn MwllachAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Bryn MwllachDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bryn-moelDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former House and Byre at Dol-y-Mur GochDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.