Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Langdon Bridge
Kilgetty/Begelly, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Langdon, Kilgetty, Kilgetty/Begelly, Pembrokeshire, designated on 18 March 1997.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 18 March 1997
- Locality
- Langdon
- Town
- Kilgetty
- Community
- Kilgetty/Begelly
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.73583, -4.75905
- Cadw reference
- 18280
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 228 Haverfordwest (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
2 km W of Begelly village and 1 km S of Reynalton village, on the unclassified road from Hackett to Langdon.
History
The road from Hackett to Langdon appears to originate in improvement works of the post-Enclosure era. The bridge is a single span structure carrying it across a small W flowing stream. Its style links it closely to the nearby Ford Bridge, which was built by John Evans, and Langdon bridge may therefore be dated to about the same period, say the first decade of the C19. It was not a County bridge.
Exterior
A bridge with a total length, including approaches, of about 50 m. It is built of local rubble sandstone masonry. Low parapets with copings of upright stones, shedding water outwards. There is a single arch of 3 m span and a carriageway 3.6 m wide between the parapets. The arch is of plain voussoirs with no emphasised keystones or imposts.
Reason for designation
Listed as an unaltered early C19 bridge of vernacular character.
Nearby in the register
- Underhill Wood Primitive Coal WorkingsCoal Mineunder 1 mi
- Ford BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Ford BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Reynalton ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.