Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former railway bridge at Bontnewydd
Bontnewydd, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 29 July 1997
- Locality
- Bontnewydd
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Bontnewydd
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.11547, -4.27405
- Cadw reference
- 18618
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 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Crossing the Afon Gwyrfai and a minor road to Llanfaglan, some 400m W of the A487 in the centre of Bontnewydd.
History
Railway bridge possibly of c1867 over Afon Gwyrfai and road to Llanfaglan. The Caernarfon to Afonwen Railway opened in 1867, built by Thomas Savin partly on the earlier Nantlle narrow gauge railway, but this railway crossed the river on a different site according to 1842 Tithe Map.
Exterior
Large triple-arched railway bridge in rock-faced squared stone with broad brick segmental arches. Arches have five courses of brickwork. Two big piers, low parapets.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-detailed example of a large mid-C19 railway bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Nantlle Tramway River BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Plas-y-bontDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty Capel SiloamReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Capel SiloamReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.