Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pont y Perchyll
Bettws, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bechan Valley, Bettws, Powys, designated on 25 April 1997.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 25 April 1997
- Locality
- Bechan Valley
- Community
- Bettws
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.54550, -3.29381
- Cadw reference
- 18421
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 1637 map "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 165 Montgomery (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located approximately 1.8km S of Bettws Cedwain church on the B4389 between Bettws Cedewain and Aberbechan, E of a junction with a minor road to Highgate.
Exterior
Late C18 or early C19 single-span road bridge. Random rubble stone below carriageway level, segmental dressed stone arch with a prominent keystone, above which is a parapet of tall, thin hammer-dressed slabs over a plinth band.
Reason for designation
Listed as an elegant masonry road bridge of C18-19, retaining its original construction and detail.
Nearby in the register
- Pontyperchill FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Little AberbechanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Glan BechanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Aber Bechan DykeLinear Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.