Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pound at Newfoundland
Eglwyswrw, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 10 December 1997
- Locality
- Brynberian
- Town
- Crymach
- Community
- Eglwyswrw
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.98553, -4.74928
- Cadw reference
- 19163
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on SE side of B 4329 opposite Newfoundland, about 1 km NE of Brynberian Bridge.
History
C19 circular pound for impounding stray livestock off Preseli mountains. Similar to the pound at Newport, Pembrokeshire.
Exterior
Circular enclosure of some 19 m diameter enclosed by a rubble stone and earth bank some 1.5 - 1.75 m high and 2m broad. One gateway with 2 single-slab stone gateposts.
Reason for designation
A well-preserved example of a rare local feature.
Nearby in the register
- PenbancDomesticunder 1 mi
- Penrhiwlas IsafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding to E of Felin BrynIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Mill building at Felin BrynIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.