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Mullock Bridge (partly in St Ishmaels community)
Marloes and St. Brides, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 23 February 1998
- Locality
- Mullock
- Town
- Haverfordwest
- Community
- Marloes and St. Brides
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.73065, -5.16967
- Cadw reference
- 19392
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated just S of the B4327 to Dale, where it crosses Winterton Marsh some 200m SW of Old Mullock Farm. Partly in St Ishmaels Community area.
History
Road bridge over marsh with long causeway to W and shorter length to E. Part of the old Haverfordwest to Dale road, disused since being bypassed by new bridge to N. The construction looks of the late C18 or early C19 but the origins may be much older, as by legend it was under Mullock Bridge that Sir Rhys ap Thomas crouched in 1485 to fulfil a prophecy that Henry Tudor would go to the crown only over Sir Rhys' back.
Exterior
Road bridge, rubble stone, mostly red sandstone. Single arch with red stone rough voussoirs and parapets variously of grey limestone blocks, end-on red sandstone or cement. Causeway extends for a short distance, some 30m, to E, and a considerable distance, some 160m, to W, to an irregular curving line.
Reason for designation
A single-arch bridge and causeway of considerable antiquity and of landscape value in the marshland setting.
Nearby in the register
- Mullock Bridge (partly in Marloes and St Brides Community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Philbeach, S end section with round chimneyDomesticunder 1 mi
- WintertonDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hut Group at Former Dale AirfieldDefenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.